PLAN advances participatory democracy by protecting the franchise among eligible system-impacted voters. PLAN administers the Election Protection Jail & Post-Release Voting Working Group. A program of Election Protection, the largest nonpartisan coalition that protects, advances, and defends the right to vote in the U.S., this Working Group assists system-impacted voters in overcoming barriers they encounter in their exercise of their voting rights and advocates for the expansion of these rights.

PLAN challenges unconstitutional and dignity-denying conditions of confinement in U.S. adult prisons and jails by providing direct legal advocacy and working to forge new precedent in the area of dignity rights law.

PLAN develops and disseminates legal resource materials for jailhouse lawyers and pro se litigants and for pro bono practitioners and jurists who practice in the prisoners’ rights bar.

PLAN collects, analyzes, and disseminates data that tracks system-impacted individuals’ self-reported experiences with agencies and officials of the criminal legal system. PLAN is the only organization that tracks nationwide data regarding conditions of confinement in U.S. prisons that is reported by prisoners, not prisons.

PLAN trains the next generation of prisoners’ rights attorneys through its Law Clerkship Program for law students and recent law school graduates and as a host provider for the New York Court System’s Pro Bono Scholars Program.