Mission
AIW’s mission is to support incarcerated women and their families by providing legal advocacy, access to critical resources, and holistic support services. We address the systemic inequities women face in prison by offering pro bono legal assistance, medical advocacy, and family reunification services that center dignity, equity, and care.
Our work empowers women to navigate legal systems, advocate for their rights, and rebuild their lives post-incarceration—fostering healing, stability, and stronger outcomes for both women and their children. In collaboration with partner organizations and through the strategic use of community resources, AIW is committed to advancing justice reform and driving long-term, transformative change within the criminal justice system.
Vision
A world where every incarcerated woman and her family is treated with dignity, supported through their challenges, and empowered to find pathways to opportunity and healing.
What We Do: Hygiene Drives to Meeting Urgent Needs, Building Lasting Change
AIW supports incarcerated women and their families through direct services that protect dignity, restore rights, and foster healing.
One way we do this is through initiatives like our Hygiene Drive—a simple yet powerful effort to ensure women have access to basic necessities like soap, shampoo, menstrual products, and lotion.
These items may seem small—but for women in prison, they represent dignity, health, and humanity.
By addressing immediate needs, AIW builds trust and opens the door for deeper engagement—offering legal advocacy, medical support, and family reunification services that help women rebuild their lives and reconnect with their children. Each effort, from a hygiene kit to courtroom advocacy, is part of our larger vision: a justice system rooted in care, equity, and opportunity.
What We Do:
Partnerships to Bring Women Home
In partnership with the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, AIW is leading the only national effort focused solely on securing compassionate release for women harmed at FCI Dublin. After years of abuse, retaliation, and systemic failures, the prison was shut down—yet the women were retraumatized by how they were transferred and further separated from their families. Through this initiative, we’re filing sentence reduction motions to bring them home and set powerful legal precedents for compassionate release nationwide.
AIW is developing a new initiative to support justice-impacted women who have experienced domestic violence and may qualify for reduced sentences or early release. These cases demand trauma-informed advocacy and a legal approach that reflects the realities of surviving abuse. We prioritize thoughtful case screening, collaboration with survivors and their families, expert documentation of abuse, and strategic use of available legal mechanisms such as compassionate release, clemency, and post-conviction relief. We also seek to partner with social workers, trauma specialists, and survivor-led organizations to ensure a holistic and dignified approach. If your firm or team is interested in helping launch or support this work, we’d love to connect.