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• Bureau of Justice Statistics Statistical information and publications about prisons in the United States.
• FedCURE is the world's leading advocate for America's ever growing, federal inmate population.
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) is the national voice for fair and proportionate sentencing laws. Learn what you can do today to help reform unfair mandatory minimum sentences.
• GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress Track legislation and votes in the United States Congress with email updates and RSS feeds. An open-source and community project.
• The November Coalition - Federal Parole Restoring Earned Early Release section
• goodtimebill: Coalition to Pass the Good Time Bill
  This Yahoo group is here to set organizing in motion to pass a “Good Time Bill” in 2009. This bill, to be re-introduced to Congress, would reduce the sentences of people in federal prisons by increasing the "good-time" credit all federal prisoners receive.

Critical facts about prison overpopulation:

• The BoP prisoner population is expected to grow by 5-7,000 over the next several years (it grew by 7,400 in 2007)
• The system is currently 37% over capacity
• The Inmate to staff ratio (a key indicator of safety and crowding) in the Bop currently is 4.92-1. To compare, it was 3.57-1 in 1997. Also, the ratio for five largest state prison systems is 3.3-1.
• 2009 budget for the BoP contains 5.4 BILLION for salaries and expenses and 95.8 million for facilities and buildings
• Recidivism rate for the federal prisons is 40%
• Medical budget (2007)= 730 million
• Non-citizen population of BoP is 52,000 occupants. That is roughly 1/4 of the 203,000 people in federal prisons.