Events Calendar
Social Media
Fact Sheets
- Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the U.S.
- Incarcerated Women
- Parents in Prison
- Trends in U.S. Corrections
- Facts About Prisons and Prisoners
- Does The World Need More Prisons? - Facts & Infographic
- Juvenile Life Without Parole
- Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice Systeme
- Youth Reentry
Recommended Articles
Prison-related links
Ohio Organizations:
- Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference
- Lucasville Amnesty
Outlining the ongoing struggle of the Lucasville Uprising prisoners - The University of Toledo Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program
- CURE-Ohio
- American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
- Innoceent Inmates Association of Ohio
- Prisoner Solidarity
- Redbird Prison Abolition
- Ohio Prison Watch
- Ohioans to Stop Executions
- Ohio Death Row
- Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center
- Ohio Prison Project
National Organizations:
Coalition Members
While individual coalition members have broad agendas, some aspect of their objectives intersect with the goal of raising public awareness about the prison crisis and/or its impact in Toledo. A brief description of their particular mission and their contribution to the debate is listed below, with liinks to further information.
UT Community for Prison Awareness
A coalition within the coalition, consisting of UT faculty, departments, and students, working on campus to educate the UT community about prison issues—in general and those specific to Toledo and the region.
The UT Community includes:
School for Interdisciplinary Studies
Departments of Criminal Justice; Social Work; History;
Philosophy and Religious StudiesUT Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
U.T. Libertarians
Contact Dr. Cynthia Ingham at Cynthia.Ingham@utoledo.edu
ACLU-Ohio (Northwest Chapter)
For decades, Ohio politicians sought to be "tough on crime" by increasing criminal penalties. Now our courts are overflowing and prisons designed to house 38,000 people hold almost 51,000. Meanwhile, state and county budgets are strained by the resulting expenses and crime rates have not declined.
In Ohio and across the nation, civil liberties issues are constantly evolving. New and unique cases come up everyday. The Ohio (Northwest Chapter) serves as a "watchdog" and educational resource for the Northwest Ohio area We are here to provide relevent resources to support the education and policy initiatives pertaining to criminal justice and prison issues.
Contact Steve Miller at stevepeaceactivist@yahoo.com
Move to Amend (Toledo)
Formed in September 2009, Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests.
We are calling for an amendment to the US Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns.
Toledo Move To Amend works with local organizations and individuals to educate our community on the damages unrestrained corporate influence causes locally, nationally and internationally.
As a member of the coalition, Toledo Move to Amend will work to expose the dark forces behind prison policy and the creation of a corrupt prison industrial complex. Instead of protecting the public and rehabilitating offenders, the prison system has become plunder for corporate shareholders, under the guise of "privatization." The justice system reveals that corporate personhood is a convenient fiction: corporate crimes receive a slap-on-the-wrist while minority offenders bear the full weight of punishment.
Website: www.MoveToAmend/oh-toledo
Contact Doug Jambard Sweet at toledo@movetoamend.org
Lucas County Libertarian Party
U.T. Libertarians
Libertarians seek to raise awareness of our ever increasing loss of liberties and the attendant explosion in prison population rates. The manner in which we treat the least of us in society—which certainly describes our prison population—is sadly indicative of our real values and national character.
The War on Drugs is a war on individuals. The Libertarian Party has always opposed prohibition as a means of control. Such prohibition does not curb the undesired activity but rather increases the number of citizens incarcerated for behavior that harms no one except perhaps the lawbreaker. Criminalizing individual choices that offend only another's moral sensibilities cost the nation too much in terms of human lives, money, and Liberty. It is time to end the War on Drugs, dismantle the machinery of prohibition, and promote alternatives to imprisonment.
Website: www.LucasCountyLibertarians.com
Contact Kenneth Sharp at Kenneth.Sharp@rockets.utoledo.edu