See also, web page on False Arrest/False Convictions.

WEB SITES (General to Topic)

• American Judicature Society - http://www.ajs.org/
• Best Places to go to Prison (Forbes.com) - http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/09/13/0913prison.html
• http:www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/justcoord/fexplore.htm
• http://www.criminaljusticeforum.com/system.htm
• Federal Fines & Sentencing Laws - http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fedsent.htm
• Federalization of State Criminal Laws - http://www.dwyercollera.com/articles/mc_federalization.asp
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) - http://www.nacdl.org/
• (The) North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence - http://www.law.duke.edu/innocencecenter/
• Northern California Innocence Project - http://www.ncip.scu.edu/
• Talk Justice - http://www.talkjustice.com/
• Truth in Justice - http://www.truthinjustice.org/
• Western Prison Project - http://www.westernprisonproject.org/
• Wisconsin Innocence Project - http://www.law.wisc.edu/FJR/innocence/

WEB SITES (Specific to Topic)

• Mortgage Crime - http://www.stopmortgagefraud.com/
• Nat'l Center for Victims of Crime, Funding Availability - http://www.ncvc.org/safeplace.html
• Nat'l Crime Victim Bar Associations - http://www.victimbar.org/
• OVC - Crime Victims Issues - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/legalseries/welcome.html
• Plea Bargaining - http://www.lawmall.com/pleabarg/
• Stock Market Victims - http://www.brokerlaw.com/
• Victims Crime with Disabilities - http://wind.uwyo.edu/resourceguide/
• MINCAVA, Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse - http://www.mincava.umn/abuse/
• White Collar Crime - http://www.nw3c.org/topics_intro.htm

VICTIM INFORMATION

• Foreclosure Fraud - http://www.newschannel2000.com/news/810584/detail.html
• Fraud Aid - http://www.fraudaid.com/Tour/site-map.htm
• National Crime Victim Bar Association - Filing litigation against a perpetrator - http://www.victimbar.org/victim_information.html
• President's Task Force on Victims of Crime - http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1982/42382a.htm
• Impact Statements:  A Victim's Right to Speak; a Nation's Responsibility to Listen - http://www.jgp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/impact/welcome.html
• OVC Links to Victim Assistance & Compensation Programs - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/links.html
• OVC Links to Help for Victims -http://www./ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/welcome.html
• The Nat'l Center for Victims of Crime - http://www.ncvc.org/
• The Nat'l Crime Victim Bar Association - http://www.victimbar.org/

ARTICLES

• DNA
  • Texas DA Refuses to Exit DNA Probe - http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brf-dna-restesting.0,3783139.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
• Justices Tackle "Three-Strikes" Law - Long Prison Sentences May be Cruel and Unusual Punishment
• Retaliation Against Women in Michigan State Prisons - http://www.hrw.org/reports98/women/

SUGGESTED READING

• Inside the Criminal Mind, by Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D. - For a synopsis of this highly informative book on criminal thinking, click Criminal Mind.
• Civil Justice for Victims of Crime - http://www.victimbar.org/victim_information.html
• Justice Matters - http://www.westernprisonproject.org/assets/Publications/JM_Winter_2002.PDF

PRISON REFORM

• After Seventeen Years (Anne Rose-Pierce), 3225 SE Alder Court #1, Portland, OR  97214
• Grace in Prison Project, P.O. Box 7354, Salem, OR  97303-0069
• Innocence Project West, Prof. Jacqueline McMurtrie, 4702 SW Scholls Ferry Road #130, Portland, OR  97225
• Insider (Larry Jackson), P.O. Box 2400, Portland, OR  97208 (503) 281-1521
• Nevada's Spartacus Project for prison reform (which is not affiliated with any other prison reform group in the United States).  Click here.
• Legal Rights of Prisoner's with Mental Disorders - http://www.napas.org/AbuseNeglect/CENTER%20FOR%20PUBLIC%20REPRESENTATION.htm
• War on Drugs - http://openthecan.org - A national organization of drug-war prisoners
• November Organization - http://www.november.org - "There is no justice in the war on drugs".
  • Lawsuits - Medical Care - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/3rd/013449p.pdf
• Western Prison Project - http://www.westernprisonproject.org/assets/Publications/JM_Winter_2002.PDF

CASE LAW, PRISON ISSUES

• Hamilton v. Levy, Immunity from Suit, Prison Officials - http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/3rd/013062p.pdf

EDUCATION

• Special to Nevada, Assembly Bill 328 allows ex-felons to have their civil rights restored.  Law passed during 2001 Legislative Session.
• According to a 1996 report by the U.S. Department of Justice entitled, "Civil Disabilities:  A State by State Analysis, 68 percent of the union, including Washington, D.C., by-and-large afford past transgressors immediate inclusion in the electorate.