These articles and studies provide valuable insights into the urgent need for climate control in prisons as extreme weather increases in Texas.
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Justice Impacted Women's Alliance
About Us
Mission
Lioness: Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance is an organization led by currently and formerly incarcerated girls and women in Texas with the purpose of ending the incarceration and systematic devaluing of the girls and women within our criminal legal system.
Vision
We envision a society where we and our sisters are spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically free from all forms of violence and harm in the criminal legal system. Our vision can be achieved through radical advocacy, education, community engagement, grassroot organizing and legislative action.
Values
We believe that lived experience is the guiding force to change.
We believe in honoring each other’s differences while striving to bring one unified voice of currently and formerly incarcerated girls and women in Texas into all spaces.
We believe that jails and prisons perpetuate harm and violence against girls and women.
“Lioness: Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance (JIWA) is a nonprofit program sponsored by Build Up, Inc., a 501(c)3 public charity.”
Lioness: Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance is an organization led by currently and formerly incarcerated girls and women in Texas with the purpose of ending the incarceration and systematic devaluing of the girls and women within our criminal legal system.
Vision
We envision a society where we and our sisters are spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically free from all forms of violence and harm in the criminal legal system. Our vision can be achieved through radical advocacy, education, community engagement, grassroot organizing and legislative action.
Values
We believe that lived experience is the guiding force to change.
We believe in honoring each other’s differences while striving to bring one unified voice of currently and formerly incarcerated girls and women in Texas into all spaces.
We believe that jails and prisons perpetuate harm and violence against girls and women.
“Lioness: Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance (JIWA) is a nonprofit program sponsored by Build Up, Inc., a 501(c)3 public charity.”
Suffocating In Silence
Statements
Lioness and Statewide Leadership Council Joint Statement on the Heat Crisis
Read our statement and our demands.
Get Involved
- PO Box 12051, Austin, Texas 78711
Contact us to receive the Lioness newsletter and links to join our monthly meetings. Add your name to the growing list of women ready to take up the fight on behalf of the girls and women incarcerated in Texas! (Let us know what city you are in so we can direct you to out regional groups as well)
Support our mission
Steering Committee
Regional Directors
Articles and Research
This series of articles delves into the stark inequalities within educational programming for women incarcerated in Texas prisons.
Read MoreLearn more about the compelling evidence supporting her innocence and the ongoing efforts to secure her release.
Read MoreRead about the history and the most recent corruption, abuse, and mismanagement within the youth justice system.
Read MoreQuick links every advocate in Texas needs, as well as guides and charts.
Read MoreLearn about the staggering numbers of women incarcerated in state and federal correctional facilities.
Read MoreEvents
Join us for a restorative Peace Walk that aims to bridge the divide between formerly incarcerated individuals and the community where they were once incarcerated. We invite residents, business owners, Faith leaders and other community leaders, to hear and share stories of inspiration and hope beyond the history of incarceration. We are so much more than our past. Come join us!
Join us as we honor the lives lost and the continued suffering of the women and men in our Texas prisons during the heat crisis.
Advocates, family members and friends of the men and women incarcerated within Texas Department of Criminal Justice will convene at the Capitol to voice their concerns about the extreme temperatures in the prisons this summer. We are coming together to implore that our elected officials and community stakeholders unite to bring our loved ones relief.
This event is hosted by Lioness Justice Impacted Women's Alliance and the Statewide Leadership Council. Join us and State Representatives as we celebrate the success and voice the struggles of currently and formerly incarcerated girls and women in Texas.
