The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls is a U.S.-based advocacy and membership organization founded in 2010 by women who were incarcerated at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Led by directly impacted women, the Council’s mission is to end the incarceration of women and girls and to build community-based, gender-responsive alternatives that preserve family unity, promote healing, and invest in housing, health, education, and economic opportunity.
Abolitionist and decarceration policies focused on women and girls; clemency and sentence relief advocacy; gender-responsive alternatives to incarceration; reentry supports and family reunification; ending harmful carceral practices (e.g., shackling, inhumane conditions); and redirecting public resources to community-based health, housing, education, and economic supports.
Primarily philanthropic support and individual donations, including foundation grants, major gifts, and grassroots contributions; occasional program revenue and event fundraising.
Andrea C. James (founder and executive director), Families for Justice as Healing, Women of the WIRE, Alliance for Incarcerated Women and Girls (partner organizations and movement allies).
Non-profit (501(c)(3))
