The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls is a U.S.-based advocacy nonprofit led by directly impacted women. It works to end the incarceration of women and girls and to build community-based alternatives rooted in care, dignity, and opportunity.
Criminal justice and incarceration policy, prison abolition, sentencing and clemency advocacy, reentry support, gender justice, family separation, and community-based alternatives to incarceration.
Primarily philanthropic grants and charitable donations.
Founded by formerly incarcerated women; closely associated with founder and executive director Andrea James; connected to its FreeHer campaign and International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women.
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization