Our Partners

While we provide extensive support through individual assistance, prison monitoring, mentoring, transportation, and a family helpline, there are many additional services and resources that benefit people who have been incarcerated and their loved ones. We maintain an evolving referral guide, sortable by county and resource type, which contains 183 organizations with which we maintain strong relationships across the Commonwealth. Where community partners are not available volunteers are able to help fill gaps in many underserved areas.

The Correctional Association of New York (CANY, founded 1844), the John Howard Association of Illinois (JHA, founded 1901), and the Pennsylvania Prison Society (Society, founded 1787) are the only state-wide, independent, nongovernmental correctional oversight entities in the United States. While our models and our levels of access to facilities are distinct, our common mission is to increase transparency among corrections agencies, promote accountability when problems are identified, and to fuel prison reform.