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American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota

PO Box 1190
Fargo, ND 58107
Phone: 701-478-9924
Fax: 701-478-9925
Email: northdakota@aclu.org
www.aclund.org

  • The ACLU of ND, a national chapter of the ACLU, is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of civil liberties and civil rights.The ACLU of North Dakota especially works with those groups who have not had their full constitutional protections granted to them such as racial minorities, Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered people and other groups who have not yet realized their full rights under the Bill of Rights.

Innocence Project of Minnesota 1536 Hewitt Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104 Phone (651) 523-3152 Fax: (651) 523-2967 Email: eapplebaum@ipmn.org Website: www.ipmn.org/

  • Actual innocence claims, with a lengthy prison term remaining. Cases involving DNA and other scientific evidence, as well as others in which credible evidence of innocence exists.

FIRSTLINK (NORTH DAKOTA) P.O. Box 447
Fargo, ND  58107 Phone: (701) 235-7335 Alternate: (800) 543-7709 Contact: Call 2-1-1 from service area Email: info@myfirstlink.org Website: http://www.myfirstlink.org/211.shtml

  • 24 hr/7 days, 2-1-1 information and referral service for Cass County in North Dakota and Clay County in Minnesota.

Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative Grants

North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Field Services  Phone: (701) 328-6661 Contact: Penny Blotsky

  • The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will target offenders ages 18-35 who are released to Cass County, which includes the cities of Fargo and West Fargo. Through the Reentry Project, the department's Division of Field Services will partner with various service agencies to address the challenges of recidivism, substance abuse, and physical and mental health issues and to support workforce participation, housing, and faith-based issues. For more information, read this grantee'swork plan: http://www.reentry.gov/sar/pdf/wp1_nd.pdf.

North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Juvenile Services Phone: (701) 667-1405 Contact: Pamela Helbling

  • The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Services, will target approximately 25 juvenile offenders annually who are released to the Bismarck/Mandan and Devils Lake communities. Through the Juvenile Reentry Project, the Division of Juvenile Services will partner with various service agencies to address the challenges of recidivism, substance abuse, and physical and mental health issues and to support workforce participation, housing, and faith-based issues.

North Dakota Department of Labor 
600 East Boulevard Avenue, Deptartment 406 
Bismarck, ND 58505 
Phone: (701) 328-2660 
Fax: (701) 328-2031 
Website: www.nd.gov/labor/ 

  • Of interest to individuals with criminal histories who are looking for assistance in finding employment.

Federal Bonding Program North Dakota Job Service 
P.O. Box 5507 
Bismarck, ND 58506 
Phone: (701) 328-2863 
Fax: (701) 328-4894 

  • The Federal Bonding Program provides fidelity bonding insurance coverage to individuals with criminal histories and other high-risk job applicants who are qualified, but fail to get jobs because regular commercial bonding is denied due to their backgrounds.

Criminal Record Repository North Dakota Office of Attorney General 
Bureau of Criminal Investigation 
P.O. Box 1054 
Bismarck, ND 58502 
Phone: (701) 328-5500 
Fax: (701) 328-5510 
Email: bciinfo@state.nd.us 
Website: http://www.ag.nd.gov/BCI/CHR/CHR.html 

  • This is the agency individuals may contact to obtain a copy of their state rap sheet and learn about the process of sealing, expunging or cleaning it up. The criminal record repository can also tell the individual who else is legally entitled to have access to his or her record.

Rough Rider Industries North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 
3303 East Main Avenue 
Bismarck, ND 58506 
Phone: (701) 328-6161 
Fax: (701) 328-6164 
Website: www.roughriderindustries.com 

  • Rough Rider Industries has five manufacturing operations in the North Dakota prison system. They include a furniture and upholstery factory, sign shop, license plate shop, metal factory and a cut and sew industry.

Pre-Release Program 
North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 
3303 East Main Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58506 
Phone: (701) 328-9687 
Website: www.state.nd.us/Prisons/pre-release_program.htm 

  • The pre-release program is a comprehensive approach to teaching basic life skills available to inmates within one year of release.

Post Release Transitional Program North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 
3100 Railroad Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58502 
Phone: (701) 328-6390 
Fax: (701) 328-6651 
Website: www.state.nd.us/docr/ 

  • The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Field Services contracts with private providers for halfway house services. Halfway houses are utilized in two ways. The halfway houses provide services such as aid in job seeking, referrals to community-based services such as vocational rehabilitation, housing, substance abuse treatment, living skills, and cognitive restructuring.

North Dakota Division of Field Services
3303 East Main Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58502 
Phone: (701) 328-6190 
Fax: (701) 328-6186 
Website: www.state.nd.us/docr/ 

State Bar Association of North Dakota 
515 1/2 East Broadway, Suite 101 
Bismarck, ND 58501 
Phone: (701) 255-1404 
Website: www.sband.org 

Job Service North Dakota 
P.O. Box 5507 
Bismarck, ND 58506 
Phone: (701) 328-2868 
Fax: (701) 328-413
Website: www.jobsnd.com 

North Dakota Department of Human Services
600 East Boulevard Avenue, Deptartment 325
Bismarck N.D. 58505-0250
Phone: (701) 328-2310 
Toll Free: (800) 472-2622
TTY: (701) 328-3480
Fax: (701) 328-2359
Email: dhseo@nd.gov Website: http://www.nd.gov/dhs/

  • The North Dakota Department of Human Services' mission is to provide quality, efficient and effective human services, which improve the lives of people.

Legal Services of North Dakota, Inc.
1025 Third Street North
P.O. Box 1893
Bismarck, ND 58502-1893 
Phone: (800) 634-5263
Website: www.legalassist.org/tree/land_tree.asp

  • Pro Bono legal services

North Dakota RSOL (Reform Sex Offender Laws) Email: rsolnd@gmail.com

  • Our main goals is to educate on sex offenders, gather statistics and show that laws need to change and provide info to those families, friends and sex offenders, letting them know they are not alone.

Unfair Appearance in Sex Offender Databases North Dakota Website: http://articles.directorym.com/Unfair_Appearance_in_Sex_Offender_Databas...

  • If you are listed on a sex offender database because of an act that is now legal, here's how to get your name off. This article also covers how public access to sex offender databases works and why this information is open to the public.

North Dakota Sex Offender Web Site Website: http://www.sexoffender.nd.gov/

Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc. Refugee, Immigrant and Migrant Services Fargo, North Dakota Office 118 Broadway North, #616 Fargo, ND 58102-4944 Phone: (701) 232-8872 Fax: (701) 232-8366 Email: fargo.migrant@smrls.org Website: http://www.smrls.org

  • Represents children: I-130 Petitions, I-485 (refugee, asylum, family-based), N-600 Applications Spanish, Somali, Amharic, Hmong, Khmer, Thai, Lao, Cebuano, Tagalog

Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota/Oficina Legal 450 North Syndicate Street, Suite 175 St. Paul, MN 55104 Phone: (651) 641-1011 or (800) 223-1368 Fax: (651) 641-1131 Email: oficinalegal@ilcm.org Website: http://www.immigrantlawcentermn.org/ilcm.htm

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