WJP’s guiding principle is that women who are currently and formerly incarcerated are experts and have the right to be and should be leaders in transforming the criminal legal system and society.
We ground our partnerships in love and trust, and we intentionally and continually readjust our work to be guided by and responsive to our partners’ evolving vision.
We believe that how we organize is as important as what we organize for, and that we should honor the process as much as any specific objective that process is trying to achieve.
We hold relationships, healing, transformation, and community as central to our work, not as secondary or coincidental outcomes of that work.
We center the leadership of cis and trans women on the frontlines of marginalized communities, we use a racial and gender justice lens, and we anchor our work in a feminism that is unabashed and intersectional, honoring the Black feminists who developed and continue to advance this concept.