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Incarceration, Gender, & Justice Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Hendren
The Incarceration, Gender & Justice Committee works to address issues facing justice involved women and girls, including court access for incarcerated parents.
Members of this committee partner annually with the National Association of Women Judges and Tacoma Community College to put on a women's reentry conference at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women. Women at the conference can attend classes on finding jobs, getting re-licensed, starting businesses, ensuring successful family time, and other important components of transition. Building successful lives after prison is possible - by focusing on change, learning from success stories, and making use of helpful resources. This is the core message of the annual Women's Conference, based on an NAWJ program called "Success: Inside & Out."
Recent accomplishments of the IGJ Committee include:
- Presenting a session at the 2018 Superior Court Judges Spring Program, entitled,
"Court Access for Incarcerated Parents"
- Convening, in partnership with the Coalition for Children of the Incarcerated, fifty plus stakeholders, including Department of Corrections officials, judicial officers, attorneys, and parents to identify barriers to court access for incarcerated parents and solutions. 2017 Convening Report
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