Criminal Defense Resource Links

Equal Justice, USA is dedicated to mobilizing and educating citizens on issues related to crime and punishment, including racial, economic, and political biases.

Prisoners and Prisoners' Rights The Legal Information Institute (LII) is known internationally as a leading "law-not-com" provider of public legal information. The LII's prisoners' rights section includes an overview of prisons and prisoner's rights and links to a menu of related resources.

NC Actual Innocence Commission The North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission is established to provide a forum for education and dialog among prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, law enforcement personnel, legal scholars, legislative representatives, and victim advocates regarding the common causes of wrongful conviction of the innocent and to develop potential procedures to decrease the possibility of conviction of the innocent in North Carolina, thereby increasing conviction of the guilty.

ACLU of NC The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving the guarantees of individual liberty found in the Constitution and laws of the United States and the state of North Carolina. Over 9,000 people throughout North Carolina actively pledge their support for civil liberties as card-carrying members of the ACLU.

NCPLS North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc, (NCPLS), is a non-profit, public service organization. The program is governed by a Board of Directors who are designated by various organizations and institutions. NCPLS serves a population of more than 32,500 prisoners and 10,000 pre-trial detainees, providing information and advice concerning legal rights and responsibilities, discouraging frivolous litigation, working toward administrative resolutions of legitimate problems, and providing representation in all State and federal courts to ensure humane conditions of confinement and to challenge illegal convictions and sentences.