The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

https://www.nationalcouncil.us/https://www.nationalcouncil.us/contact-usagoode@thecouncil.us

About the Organization

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.

Policy Goals

Criminal justice and incarceration policy, prison abolition, sentencing and clemency advocacy, reentry support, gender justice, family separation, and community-based alternatives to incarceration.

Funding

Primarily philanthropic grants and charitable donations.

Affiliates

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.

Legal Structure

501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

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