Since 1983, we have been committed to improving the quality of the criminal defense bar in Washington and in working for improved funding for public defense.

WDA provides over 700 members with access to the most recent developments in criminal law through training seminars, publications, and its resource assistance.

A network of organizations and communities who seek progressive change in our criminal justice system. The Criminal Justice Reform Network seeks an effective response to over-incarceration, and the disproportionate arrest and incarceration of individuals based on race and class. The CJRN seeks to create a system guided by principles based on the humane treatment of all people and a system committed to racial, social and economic justice.

The Center was created in 1976 to respond to the deplorable conditions in prisons and jails in the South and the United States Supreme Court’s decision that year allowing the resumption of capital punishment. Since its creation, the Center has been engaged in litigation, public education, advocacy, and work with other organization and individuals to protect the civil and human rights of people prosecuted in the criminal courts – particularly those facing the death penalty – and confined in the prisons and jails of the South.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to groups that have traditionally been denied their basic civil rights. Learn more about the ACLU of Washington's work protecting fundamental rights within the criminal justice system, the drug war, and police practices.