Our Mission
Working to promote the health, safety, and dignity of people in prison and their families.
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We Monitor & Mediate
The Society is the sole organization in the Commonwealth with legal authority to visit any prison or jail.
We put our unique access to good use to resolve individual requests for assistance and report without bias on what happens behind bars.
We Connect
In a prison system that causes isolation by design, we believe in a better way.
We help to mitigate the isolation inherent in the prison experience with meaningful support, services, and programs for incarcerated people and their loved ones. Being behind bars should not equate to losing access to your personal support network, and it doesn’t have to.
We Make It Human
Because it is.
Empathy and impartiality are at the forefront of how we advocate for the improvement of the conditions inside our prisons. We shine a light on the experience of incarceration in Pennsylvania to enact larger systemic change.
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