PARC is committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism of the criminal injustice system and to further developing anti-racism as individuals and throughout our organization. We provide support for educators, activists, prisoners, and prisoners' families. This work includes building networks for action and producing materials that expose human rights violations while fundamentally challenging the rapid expansion of the prison industrial complex.

A network of organizations and communities who seek progressive change in our criminal justice system. The Criminal Justice Reform Network seeks an effective response to over-incarceration, and the disproportionate arrest and incarceration of individuals based on race and class. The CJRN seeks to create a system guided by principles based on the humane treatment of all people and a system committed to racial, social and economic justice.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to groups that have traditionally been denied their basic civil rights. Learn more about the ACLU of Washington's work protecting fundamental rights within the criminal justice system, the drug war, and police practices.

The Defender Association has 92 attorneys representing more than 14,000 clients per year in felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, family advocacy, and civil commitment cases, as well as a number of appeals at all levels of the state courts.

The Defender Association received in 1999 a $146,000 grant from the Justice Department to establish a Racial Disparity Project

Justice Works! seeks to provide a safe, affirming and unique community whereby African Americans, with the support of their allies, use self-determination to solve problems encountered with or created by the criminal justice system. The mission of Justice Works is undoing racism in the criminal justice system as experienced by African Americans.