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Reform organizations
- Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE). National criminal justice reform organization founded in 1972; goals include reforming corrections so that "prisons are only used for those who absolutely must be incarcerated" and "prisoners have all the resources they need to turn their lives around."
- National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA). A private, nonprofit agency providing training, technical assistance, research and direct services to criminal justice, social services, and mental health organizations and other clients in the area of correctional master planning, responding to the problems of institutional overcrowding, alternative sentencing, and other correctional and sentencing issues.
- The Sentencing Project. A national nonprofit organization promoting sentencing reform and alternatives to incarceration, particularly for indigent defendants.
- Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc. A national nonprofit organization which combats rape of male and female prisoners, provides assistance to survivors of prison and jailhouse rape, and provides education and information to inmates, correctional staff, and the public on this endemic problem.