our Impact

The administrative remedy process, also known as grievance process, is the only official avenue for people incarcerated in the United States to raise an issue or seek relief for their conditions. Despite its critical importance, the process is underused, misunderstood, and it is often suppressed through misdirection, intimidation, and retaliation by staff. In addition, there are no outside organizations dedicated to helping people use this process or holding prison staff accountable to incarcerated people’s complaints. 

At The Remedy Project, administrative remedies are the foundation of our work. Formerly incarcerated experts in the administrative remedy process train students to correspond with our incarcerated members and write remedies on their behalf. Administrative remedies legitimize and humanize the struggles that incarcerated individuals face, and combined with campaigns and base building, significantly increase the pressure on prisons to change their culture of corruption and abuse.

We are building a network of students, currently and formerly incarcerated people, and supporters to stand up against the ongoing crisis of torture and inhumanity in the US prison system. Led by our campus-based chapters, students recruit members and supporters, develop advocacy resources, spread knowledge about the carceral state, and disseminate strategy to create a movement of people strong enough and smart enough to challenge the prison system. ​​