Sunday Sites #13 – Twitter Users to Follow

May 24th, 2009 by Courtney

This week I’m going to list a bunch of Twitterers worthy of your following. In no particular order:

1. @innocenceblog – The twitter account of the Innocence Project – Exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system.

2.@dpinfoctr – Death Penalty Information Center, serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.

3. @ncadp – The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

4. @amnesty – We are Amnesty International USA. We are people from across the world standing up for human rights.

5. @prisonreform – News about Prison Reform on behalf of Michael Santos and prisoners everywhere.

6. @bnewmiller – Author of Bearing False Witness and father of a wrongfully convicted son.

7. @cellmail – Wife, mother and CEO of Cell-Mail Greetings, an inmate communications company.

8. @legal_injustice – Misconduct & abuse by those who took an oath to uphold the law; stories of those wrongfully accused; convicted of crimes they did not commit.

9. @thousandkites – Thousand Kites is a community-based performance, web, video and radio project centered on the United States prison system

10. @prisonbookprog – We are a grassroots organization that exists for one purpose – to send free books to prisoners. We’ve been doing it since 1972.

11. @prisonfellowshp – Prison Fellowship partners with local churches across the country to minister to a group that society often scorns and neglects: prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.

12. @freepeltiernow – Support organization for political prisoner, Leonard Peltier.

13. @gogogi – Getting Out by Going In is a nonprofit empowering incarcerated men and women in jails and prisons throughout the U.S.A.

14. @prisonvoice – Prison Pen Pal Service.

15. @txprisonbidness – “What happens if you privatize prisons is that you have a large industry with a vested interest in building ever-more prisons.” — Molly Ivins, 2003

16. @pfmusa – Prison fellowship network across the USA.

17. @prisondharma – an international, nonsectarian, contemplative support network for prisoners.

18. @prisonmovement – A blog about prison and incarceration.

19. @ilovemyinmate – A woman with a son incarcerate in Ohio. She sells items on Cafepress to make money to send her son.

20. @prisonactions – Gets alerts of prison and prisoner-related actions from 30+ social action platforms.

21. @scottsisters – Volunteer Legal Analyst – Seeking Freedom for The Scott Sisters

22. @dpfocus – Death Penalty Focus is one of the largest nonprofit advocacy organizations in the nation dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment.

23. @aclu – The American Civil Liberties Union

24. @aclupa – ACLU of Pennsylvania

25. @aclu_wa – ACLU of Washington State

26. @aclu_norcal – ACLU of Northern California

27. @fla_innocence – The Innocence Project of Florida

28. @accadp – Alameda County Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

29. @n_a_d_p – Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty

30. @kcadp – The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

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