Help is Available
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic or other violence, there are many organizations that can offer support or help you in your specific situation.
For more details please visit one of the websites below.
- Victim Connect’s List of resources – Larger list of Victim resources, don’t know? Start here.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline –
- RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) –
- National Sexual Assault Hotline 1(800) 656-4673
- Women’s Law Email Hotline – provide basic legal information, referrals, and emotional support related to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
- Helping Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault https://helpingsurvivors.org
- dial 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Get Involved
If you’d like to help causes involving justice reform or prisoner re-entry, below are several links that you may be interested in. Note: Women & Crime Podcast is not affiliated with any of these projects.
- Innocence Project – exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
- The IF Project – Helping female offenders with reentry. Asks the question “If someone could have done something to prevent you from going to prison, what would it be?”
- Justis 4 Justus – Started by two female exonerees to help other exonerees after release.
- Families Against Mandatory Minimums
- Drug Policy Alliance – mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.