Southern Center for Human Rights (Georgia)
Local Criminal Justice
#2 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…

Southern Center for Human Rights
National Criminal Justice
#6 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…

Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
National Criminal Justice
#7 Top Nonprofit
A nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.

Texas Defender Service (Texas)
Local Criminal Justice
#7 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to establish a fair and just criminal justice system in Texas.

Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama (EJI) (Alabama)
Local Criminal Justice
#8 Top Nonprofit
A nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.

Gulf Region Advocacy Center (GRACE) (Texas)
Local Criminal Justice
#11 Top Nonprofit
The Gulf Region Advocacy Center, or GRACE, is organized for the purpose of supporting and providing quality representation to indigent persons charged with capital crimes in the state courts of Texas and Louisiana. The Director and several of the Board…

Death Penalty Information Center
National Criminal Justice
#12 Top Nonprofit
The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for…

The Constitution Project (TCP)
National Criminal Justice
#16 Top Nonprofit
The Constitution Project (TCP) brings together unlikely allies—experts and practitioners from across the political spectrum—in order to promote and safeguard America’s founding charter. TCP is working to reform the nation’s broken criminal justice system and to strengthen the rule of law…

New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (New York)
Local Criminal Justice
#17 Top Nonprofit
New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (formerly New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that in 2008 expanded its mission after the effective abolition of capital punishment in New York. NYADP supports effective, rational, and…