Welcome to the Keeping Families Connected / No Cost Calls Coalition. We are individuals and local, state, and national organizations who came together to pass a bill guaranteeing free calls to people in prison and jail in Massachusetts, including people being detained for ICE.
Keeping Families Connected depends on the insights and leadership of our directly affected members. You can read more about our bill and how it invests in families and promotes racial, gender, immigrant, and economic justice here.
You can also read about what no cost calls would mean to people separated by incarceration in Massachusetts in their own words.
If you have any questions or comments, or want to support our work, please contact us.
Current organizations that endorse legislation establishing free calls are listed below:
| AACC (African American Coalition Committee), MCI-Norfolk |
| ACLU of Massachusetts |
| Actual Justice Task Team UCC |
| Ameelio |
| Arlington Fights Racism |
| Black and Pink Massachusetts |
| Boston Immigrant Justice Accompaniment Network |
| Boston Ward 4 Democratic Committee |
| Bristol County for Correctional Justice |
| Building Up People Not Prisons |
| Business Innovation Center |
| Central Massachusetts Jobs with Justice |
| Coalition for Effective Public Safety |
| Coalition for Social Justice |
| Color Of Change |
| Committee for Public Counsel Services |
| Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU |
| Common Cause Massachusetts |
| Community Action Agency of Somerville, Inc. |
| Community Reentry Program Inc. |
| Congregation B’nai Israel Tikkun Olam Committee |
| Decarcerate Western Massachusetts |
| Disability Law Center |
| Disability Policy Consortium |
| Embrace Boston |
| Families for Justice as Healing |
| First Parish Church Brookline |
| GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) |
| Greater Boston Legal Services CORI & Re-entry Project |
| Haley House |
| Healing Our Land Inc. Ministry |
| Immigration Justice Task Force – First Parish Concord |
| Jane Doe Inc. |
| Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action |
| Jobs NOT Jails Coalition |
| Joint Coalition on Health |
| Justice For Housing, Inc. |
| Kavod Boston |
| MASC Massachusetts Against Solitary Confinement |
| Massachusetts Bail Fund |
| Massachusetts Bar Association |
| Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women |
| Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity |
| Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women |
| Massachusetts Communities Action Network |
| Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition |
| Massachusetts Jobs with Justice |
| Massachusetts Law Reform Institute |
| Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee |
| Metro Boston Recovery Learning Community |
| Metrowest Worker Center – Casa |
| Muslim Justice League |
| Mystic Valley Action for Reproductive Justice |
| NASW-MA |
| National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients) |
| National Lawyers Guild-Massachusetts Chapter |
| National Lawyers Guild-Harvard Law School Chapter |
| New Beginnings Reentry Services |
| New England Innocence Project |
| New Vision Organization, Inc. |
| Northeast Justice Center |
| Out Now |
| Parole Review For All |
| Prison Policy Initiative |
| Prisoners’ Assistance Project |
| Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts |
| Progressive Massachusetts |
| Sharon Interfaith Action |
| Sharon Racial Equity Alliance (SREA) |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice Boston |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice Worcester |
| SISTERS UNCHAINED INC |
| Southeast Recovery Learning Community |
| Temple Beth Elohim’s Racial Justice Initiative |
| The F8 Foundation |
| The Real Cost of Prisons Project |
| THRIVE Communities of Massachusetts |
| Union of Minority Neighborhoods |
| Unitarian Universalist Mass Action |
| United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445 |
| UTEC |
| White & Associates, PC |
| Women & Incarceration Project, Suffolk University |
| Women’s Bar Association |
| Worth Rises |