FOUNDATIONS WE BELIEVE IN
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Next100 is supported by The Century Foundation, a progressive public policy think tank. The campaign was established to promote one-of-a-kind, independent ideas for the new generation of policy leaders. Next100 represents a continuation of TCF’s century-long commitment to elevating the best ideas and most diverse perspectives, and pursuing policy research with purpose. Next100 believes mass incarceration and our current criminal justice system are having a devastating impact, particularly on communities of color
and Indigenous people. They are focused on researching, developing, and advocating for policies that prioritize rehabilitation over punishment, strengthen communities, and make for a more fair and just criminal justice system.
ReMerge of Oklahoma County is a pre-trial diversion program that serves high-risk, high-needs mothers facing non-violent felony offenses in Oklahoma County. ReMerge is a non-profit dedicated to restoring women* to their families and our community. They seek to impact Oklahoma’s high rate of female* incarceration and to serve as a model to the power of rehabilitation.
Prison Policy Initiative is a non-profit, non-partisan foundation producing cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization. The group creates many advocacy campaigns aimed toward the pursuit of a more just society. The initiative's research and advocacy is at the center of the national conversation about criminal justice reform and over-criminalization. Because essential national and state level data is often completely inaccessible, the Prison Policy Initiative's insightful data analysis and
powerful graphics help fill these gaps to bring in new supporters and help other movement
leaders achieve their goals.
The Bail Project combats mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system—one person at a time. They restore the presumption of innocence, reunite families, and challenge a system that criminalizes race and poverty. The Bail Project is on a mission to end cash bail and create a more just, equitable, and humane pretrial system. Because bail is returned at the end of a case, donations to The Bail Project National Revolving Bail Fund can be recycled and reused to pay bail two to three times per year, maximizing the impact of every dollar. 100% of online donations are used to bring people home.
Project Blackbird is an Oklahoma-based advocacy collective that works to inspire and advocate for the collective pleasure, wellness and liberation of black communities. We believe in innovative approaches to freedom. Their work is centered women, femmes, queer, non-binary, trans folx, and LGBTQIA communities.
Their most successful project is inspired by the story of Tondalao Hall--a woman incarcerated for the crimes her abuser afflicted onto their children. Her thirty-year prison sentence at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center illustrates the immediate need to address failures in the criminal justice system
that promote the practice of mass incarceration and female* shame. We are in pursuit of her
freedom using advocacy and coalition building to fund her re-entrance into the free world after
years of societal and mental neglect.
The Minnesota Prison Doula Project provides pregnancy and parenting support to incarcerated parents. We provide birth support from trained doulas in the Minnesota areas, as well as group-based and individual doula education and support for prospective doulas across the U.S. The goal is to nurture
healthy relationships and increase parenting confidence and skills. MpDP works with those serving sentences at Minnesota’s only women’s state prison and those held in county correctional
facilities throughout Minnesota.
The National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI) aims to eliminate racial and gender disparities in the U.S. criminal legal system that are responsible for its disproportionate impact on Black women*, girls, and gender nonconforming people. They engage in rigorous research and capacity building in order to transform the current system and promote policy change that centers and uplifts the voices and experiences of Black women, girls, and gender nonconforming people who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. NBWJI seeks to dismantle the punitive paradigm driving the U.S. criminal legal system and build, in its place, pathways to healing and opportunity. At NBWJI, we envision a society where healing—not punishment—is upheld as justice.
Since 1994, the Women’s Prison Book Project (WPBP) has provided women and transgender persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, GED, etc.) to fiction, politics, history, and women’s health. They are an all-volunteer, grassroots organization that seek to build connections with those behind the walls, and to educate those of us on the outside about the realities of prison and the justice system.
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The American Civil Liberties Union advocates for medical care for pregnant inmates across the U.S. and fight against the over-incarceration of pregnant women*. Whether an incarcerated woman* decides to carry her pregnancy to term or have an abortion, she has a constitutionally protected right to obtain appropriate medical care. The ACLU works to secure this right in prisons and jails throughout the country. Unfortunately, shackling pregnant women during active labor and childbirth is all too common in our nation’s prisons and jails. Through litigation and advocacy, the ACLU works to end this barbaric practice and protect the health of incarcerated women and their babies.
A pregnant woman suffering from drug addiction or other substance abuse and health conditions needs medical care, not incarceration. In recent years, we have seen numerous instances where states have detained and incarcerated a drug-dependent pregnant woman or have used the threat of jail time or removal of her children to force a pregnant woman into medical care against her will. Such punitive approaches to treating pregnant women are not only unlawful, but they also deter women from seeking needed medical care and social services.
Black & Pink's goal is liberation. They have a radical view of the fight for justice: The organization is
made up of feminists and anti-racists who want queer liberation against capitalism. Prisons are part
of the system that oppresses and divides us. By building a movement and taking action against this system of violence, we will create the world we dream of. Abolition is the goal, and the strategy for action. Any advocacy, services, organizing, and direct action we take will remove bricks from the system, not put up more walls. B&J wants revolution and will work on reforms too, even if they are only small steps at ending the suffering caused by prisons. Their work is based in the experience of people who are or were
in prison. B&J knows that those most hurt by the violence of the prison industrial complex have the knowledge of how to tear it down.
Essie Justice Group is an organization with a mission to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration’s harm to women, and communities. Their nine-week Healing to Advocacy model brings women with incarcerated loved ones together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change. Founded by Gina Clayton in 2014 in Oakland, CA, Essie Justice Group is named after Gina’s great-grandmother, Essie Bailey, who grew up on a Louisiana sharecropping farm and whose feats on behalf of family in the face of Jim Crow, sexism and poverty mirror the un-celebrated efforts women with incarcerated loved ones make daily.