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National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls #TheNationalCouncil #FreeHer #ClemencyWorks #Sisterhood
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No one is coming to save us y’all. they will take our issues and dumb them down and use low hanging fruit to appear progressive and create events as photo ops for the appearance of progress. Stop expecting change and create it #ReimaginingCommunities Families for Justice as Healing The National Council



Y’all They’re building women’s prisons all ova the country. Locking up the women. The grandmothers, mothers, aunties, daughters, sisters, wives. We’re on the ground. Help us turn this around and remember no one is coming to save us. It’s up to all of us. Join us The National Council


“We are more than the messy parts of our lives. We actually are experts.” Pursuing the audacious dream of abolishing incarceration of women and girls, which directly impacts families’ and communities’ wellbeing, 2015 Soros Justice Fellow andreaFreeHerjames leads The National Council.


What else can be added to our conference aimed to help us all #RestReflectHeal ? How about laughter 😂! #thecouncilus is excited to announce a FreeHer Comedy Special Event, hosted by the hysterically funny and talented Kym Whitley ft. the hottest up-and-coming women comedians.








This Mother's Day, join The National Council and take action to fund programs that center recovery and accountability for women and communities — not incarceration and family separation. TAKE ACTION NOW: nationalcouncil.us


Andrea James, founder and Executive Director of The National Council, has dedicated her life to transforming the criminal justice system and advocating for incarcerated women. In 2009, andreaFreeHerjames was sentenced to serve a 24-month federal prison sentence. After a lifetime of work
