To alleviate the economic pressure price gouging exerts on incarcerated loved ones and their family members, The National Council will combat extortive penal practices with a guaranteed income. It will be the first organization to do so within prison walls. It will also combat economic precarity among formerly incarcerated women, who experience the detriment of a criminal record long after serving their sentences. Twenty one system-impacted women—four of them currently incarcerated in state and federal prisons in the United States—will be provided a guaranteed income of $500 a month for a year. As we fight to end incarceration in the long term, guaranteed income initiatives led and developed by system-impacted leadership are a pathway to transformative justice in the immediate term. The Community Love Fund will show us how an alternate, more expansive understanding of public safety can take root when we invest into caring for our communities, one woman at a time.
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Women, Families, and Kids under 18, Formerly Incarcerated, Black and POC
