A team of Indigenous and settler women living in the Vancouver area.
of the female prison population is Indigenous — despite Indigenous women accounting for less than four per cent of the female population.
of federal segregation placements are Indigenous women, isolated from others for months and even years on administrative grounds.
of federally sentenced women have identified mental health needs, with significant histories of trauma and abuse.
"The practice of solitary confinement is illegal but still now practiced by other names: administrative segregation, disciplinary segregation, modified movement, clinical seclusion, lockdown, suicide watch, enhanced supervision." NWAC Prison Issues Fact Sheet
Truth & Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action #31, 35–37
Our Mission
To support incarcerated & recently released Indigenous women in their Creator-given cultural and spiritual identity & to advocate for justice in the prison system.
“He has sent me to mend broken hearts, to tell prisoners they have been set free…”
Luke 4:18, First Nations Version
Are you about to be released? Could you use a friend when you get out?
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