Webinars

Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition

2020 Prison Formation Webinar Series

catholicprisonministries.org

Catholic Mobilizing Network

National Organization transform Criminal Justice System

catholicmobilizing.org

Websites

• In the Public Interest: Criminal Justice and Immigration: the latest articles and research on criminal justice published by this center for policy research.
• Office of Justice Programs: Website of a government office which provides information and recommendations to federal, state, and local law enforcement.
• Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority: State agency comprised of leaders in the justice system and the community. The agency provides statistics about criminal justice and policy effectiveness.
• Inmate Advocacy of Illinois
• Social Justice Resource Center: Criminal Justice System: Resource for Catholic perspectives on criminal justice, including statistics, prayers, quotes, Catholic teaching, educational videos, additional publications, and informational websites.
• Clark-Fox Family Foundation: Criminal Justice Map: Interactive map of resources available to offenders, crime victims, and communities in the St. Louis area, as well as those working in justice reform advocacy.
• Education Justice Project of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A college-in-prison program, the Education Justice Project compiles lists of prison education programs and activists.
• Equal Justice Initiative: Organization committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment. Website provides articles and videos about the intersection of criminal justice with race, poverty and children.
• American Friends Service Committee: Ending Mass Incarceration: Resources specific to issues of prison privatization, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement.
• Prision Activist Resource Center: An organization committed to exposing injustice of the Prison Industrial Complex. Website details their projects and lists resources for prisoners.
• Saint Louis University Transformative Justice Initiative
• Prison Policy Initiative. Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics. Prisoners in 2015.
• National Institute of Justice. Recidivism.
• National Institute of Justice. Research on Reentry and employment.
• VoteSmart.org Become an informed voter on issues that impact mass incarceration.
• SentencingProject.org Follow legislative reform efforts and advocate for Smart on Crime initiatives.
• PrisonPolicy.org Avoid supporting companies that profit from incarceration.

Books

• Responsiblity, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness
• Restorative Justice Dialogue: An Essential Guide for Research and Practice 
• The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for our Failed Prison System
• Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
• A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of the Mass Incarceration in America
• The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree
• Convict Christ: What the Gospel Says about Criminal Justice
• The Church of the Second Chance: A Faith-Based Approach to Prison Reform
• One Day in the Life of 179212: Notes from an American Prison
• The Little Book of Restorative Justice
• Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice
• Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences
• Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment
• The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America
• The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
• No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
• Ministry to the Incarcerated
• Are Prisons Obsolete?
• Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment
• Compassionate Justice: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice
• After the Crime: The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues between Victims and Violent Offenders
• Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
• Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better 
• Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics, and Spirituality
• Men We Reaped: A Memoir
• Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
• Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
• A Nazareth Manifesto: Being With God
• When We Visit Jesus In Prison: A Guide for Catholic Ministry
• Thinking Theologically About Mass Incarceration: Biblical Foundations and Justice Imperatives
• Mr. Smith Goes To Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis

Articles

• Prison Addiction: Why Mass Incarceration Policies Must Change by Bishop Denis Madden (America Magazine)
• Time for Common Sense Reform by Christie Billups (Lewis University)
• Ferguson: Enough Injustice to Go Around by Christie Billups (Lewis University)
• How Can We See Christ in Criminals? (National Catholic Register)
• Testimony on Criminal Justice Reform (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
• Wardens from Wall Street: Prison Privatization (Catholic Bishops)
• How to Dismantle the New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
• SLU Establishes Reentry Program To Help incarcerated Individuals
• Christ the Prisoner: A Lenten Reflection on the Mocking of Christ
• Doing the Crime Without Doing the Time: Why the Church should welcome alternatives to mass incarceration
• The Redemption of Ex-Prisoners is a Duty of the Catholic Church
• Lord, When Did We See You In Prison?
• A Church for Every Prisoner
• I Was In Prison and You Wrote To Me 

Videos

• Restorative Justice Training Videos from University of Minnesota