Criminal Justice

A national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting those who work in and operate US jails.

See especially the many links and resources on the Critical Criminology Division's page of this website.

Produces a quarterly newsletter, The Fire Inside, since 1996. Also has useful resources linked that relate to women prisoners and prisoner rights.

Advocacy and activist group campaigning to halve the U.S. prison population in the United States and to promote a humane understanding and vision about how to think about and treat those who are incarcerated.

A national non-profit serving the media and public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment since 1990.

The Foundation's Criminal Justice initiative aims to reduce crime, increase public safety, and ensure the criminal justice system operates as fairly and cost-effectively as possible. Research publications are available.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.

Provides educational and policy material useful for researching this topic.

By CEARDY, The Council for Educators of At-Risk and Delinquent Youth, founded in 1999. A professional organization of educators who teach in non-traditional educational settings, such as detention and corrections facilities, special education programs, alternative schools, residential programs, day treatment, and mental health placements.

An advocacy and resource service to sheriffs nationwide. Includes interactive map directory of over 3000 sheriffs in the US.

Non-profit organization founded in 1976.

A tracking and processing tool for registered agencies and offices, FOIAonline allows citizens to request information under Freedom Of Iinformation Act (FOIA) from participating agencies, track the status of requests, file appeals, and search for other people’s requests, appeals, and responsive records

An independent website created by Max Galka, with funding from the Knight Foundation, FOIA Mapper aggregates and displays FOIA information in a visually dynamic environment.

An important part of CIA's ongoing effort to be more open and to provide for more public accountability has been a recognition of the importance of declassifying historically significant Agency documents. The Agency's Historical Review Program, with the exception of several statutorily mandated requirements, is a voluntary declassification program that focuses on records of historical value.

Since 2000, CIA has installed and maintained an electronic full-text searchable system named CREST (the CIA Records Search Tool), at NARA II in College Park, Maryland. The CREST system is the publicly accessible repository of the subset of CIA records reviewed under the 25-year program in electronic format (manually reviewed and released records are accessioned directly into the National Archives in their original format).

Department of Homeland Security's FOIA library. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires FOIA Reading Rooms contain four distinct categories of records. The four categories of Reading Room records are: 1) "final opinions [and] . . . orders" made in the adjudication of cases; 2) specific agency policy statements; 3) "administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff that affect a member of the public"; and 4) records disclosed in response to a FOIA request that "the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject of subsequent requests for substantially the same records."

The FBI has converted many FOIA documents to an electronic format (PDF), and they may be viewed here.

The National Online FOIA Library directs users to final opinions, administrative staff manuals and instructions, frequently requested records, such as hurricane responses and FOIA Logs, EPA-elated information systems, and Superfund-related information.

U.S. Dept. of Justice.

The Federal inmate database searches prisoners 1982-present.

U.S. Dept. of Treasury.

FBI & National White Collar Crime Center.

US Dept. of Justice in its Office of Justice Programs.