Barred Business is a group started in 2020 by formerly incarcerated Black women.E. program for formerly incarcerated women and works on bail, voting rights and fair laws for people with records. People with records and their families can join as members.
Ebenezer Baptist Church is a historic church in Atlanta., in person and online. It also offers a Wednesday evening discussion group, a children and youth chapel, and classes for new members.
Black Push is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps people returning home from prison and speaks up on voting rights and unfair treatment. It runs a community center in East Atlanta with a food pantry, activities for kids, and violence prevention programs. Most programs are free.
The Martin Luther King Sr. Community Resources Collaborative is a community agency near Ebenezer Baptist Church. It puts several kinds of help for families in one place, such as job and money training, free tax help, housing classes and emergency help to stay housed. Its goal is to help families become self-sufficient.
Atlanta Community Support Project is a group run by people who have been affected by the criminal legal system. It holds trainings and community events. It also connects volunteer lawyers with jailhouse lawyers to work on parole and post-conviction cases in Georgia.
Southern Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit law and advocacy group in Atlanta. It helps people affected by the criminal legal system in the Deep South by doing legal representation, lawsuits, policy advocacy, court watching, and public education.
The Atlanta Alliance is the Atlanta branch of a national group that works against racism and police violence. It is working to close Fulton County Jail and end cash bail there. It holds regular Tuesday evening meetings and stands with families of people killed by police or who died in jail.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF is a national civil rights group that works for Latino communities. Its main work is big court cases and advocacy on issues like immigrant rights, voting, and fair treatment at work. It also runs a bilingual hotline for civil rights problems and programs that help students get into law school.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private foundation based in Baltimore that works across the country to improve life for children, young people and families. It shares research, data and guides, and it makes grants to agencies and community groups. It also runs an Atlanta Civic Site that works with families in Southside Atlanta's NPU-V neighborhoods.
This is a family-led justice campaign in Atlanta. The family says their father, a church deacon, was killed by an Atlanta police officer in 2023, and they are still asking for an arrest and a trial. They hold community events like cookouts, fun days and an arts night, and they share news and video about the case.
Reform Georgia is a volunteer-run, statewide group that studies Georgia's justice system and speaks up for changes like ending cash bail, shrinking probation, and making it easier to clear a criminal record. It shares data and ways to take action, and it collects stories from people affected by the system. It does not provide legal help or direct services.
Ameelio is a national technology nonprofit. It builds free tools that let people in jails and prisons stay in touch with family, take classes, and prepare to come home. Families sign up online, and the facility must approve each contact.
All of Us or None ATL was the Georgia chapter of a group that works for the rights of people who are or were in prison, and for their families. Their main campaign was to end slavery as a punishment in Georgia. They also held monthly online support groups for families, now hosted by a partner group. On June 24, 2026, they posted that the Georgia chapter would close on July 1, 2026, and that the page would be deactivated.
Community Over Cages is a group of national and local organizations working to put fewer people in jail in Fulton County. It speaks to lawmakers, writes research for the public, and backs support for public defenders. Community members can learn, speak up, volunteer, give, or share their own story.
