To date, the unPrison Project has already reached over 20,000 incarcerated women, or 10% of the total female prison population in the U.S

Our Philosophy

We strive to bring more public awareness to the needs and lives of incarcerated women and their children.

Programs

Our programs work to empower, inspire, and cultivate critical thinking, life skills, self-reflection, and peer mentoring. At the same time, we bring public awareness about the needs of incarcerated women and their children.

  • Cultural Identity

  • Mentoring

  • Creative Self-Discovery and Expression

  • Personal Wellness and Healing

  • Child Welfare and Transracial Adoption

  • Education and  Literacy

  • Juvenile Justice

  • Motivation and Purpose

  • Social Change and Healing

  • Youth Development

  • Community and Family

  • Compassion Fatigue

 

UP in the Streets

UP In the Streets works outside of prison walls to provide books and resource materials to those in homeless shelters. Often the step before prison is homelessness, unemployment, and poverty.

UP with Books

UP with Books is a reading and literacy campaign for children with mothers in prison. 

Today, over 250,000 women are incarcerated in the United States, and 2.7 million children under the age of eighteen have a parent in prison.