Models for Change: Community-led and policy-driven solutions that center healing and equity

We’ve spent the last five blog posts tracing the landscape of reproductive injustice, pregnancy and birth behind bars, mental health neglect, and the painful gaps that derail reentry for women who’ve been incarcerated. And now, in this final post, we turn toward hope and action.

Because while the criminal legal system continues to fail women—especially Black, brown, trans, disabled, and low-income women—communities are leading the way in building alternatives that center healing, not harm.