Essie Justice Group

The nation’s leading organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration.

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Essie Justice Group is sunsetting Twitter. We still want to stay connected with you—here's where you can find us:

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See you on those platforms! 🧡

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New year, same goal: combat the narratives around incarceration that harm women and our incarcerated loved ones.

Tune into Pillars to learn more about our lived experiences, available now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/mU5azzTYvT

#Podcast #Women

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If you are a woman with a currently or formerly incarcerated loved one, you can find healing, life-long community, and belonging at Essie. 🫂💜

Connect with us: https://t.co/Z546x9lVWr

#PillarsPod #Women #Podcast #Jail #Prison

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Shop with purpose this holiday season! Our ‘Seen’ t-shirt collab with For Everyone Collective spotlights the women, especially Black women, who hold our communities together as the system tries to tear us apart. ✊🏾

Shop: https://t.co/KuOqRiVPbC

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If you are a woman who has a currently or formerly incarcerated loved one, you belong at Essie Justice Group. 🧡🫂 Take five minutes to nominate yourself or someone you know to our free Healing to Advocacy Program!

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#SisterhoodIsPowerful

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Give the gift of life-long community, mutual support, and leadership development by nominating yourself or a woman you know to Essie Justice Group’s Healing to Advocacy Program. https://t.co/Yln9Wpna5r #GivingTuesday (4/4)

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Curious about how to support the care-centered leadership of women with incarcerated loved ones this #GivingTuesday? 🤔🧡 (1/4)

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Shop our ‘Seen’ t-shirt collab with For Everyone Collective. A portion of the proceeds of every sale directly supports the work women with incarcerated loved ones do to fill in the gaps where society fails. https://t.co/v8iulffW90 #GivingTuesday (3/4)

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We're still feeling the love and power from our historic Fall 2025 Healing to Advocacy Graduation season! 🧡🎉

Check out our latest blog for highlights from our biggest Healing to Advocacy cohort season to date: https://t.co/oYyqcjMhFp

#SisterhoodIsPowerful #Leadership

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We're hiring! Join a team of dedicated organizers who are working to develop the care-driven leadership of women with incarcerated loved ones that we need now more than ever.

Visit the link in bio for our open positions.
#Hiring #BlackFeminist #MakeAnImpact

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At our 2025 Fall Healing to Advocacy Graduation, Essie's Founder & Executive Director Gina Clayton-Johnson spoke about Sisterhood as a powerful force for dismantling the harms of mass incarceration. 🧡

#SisterhoodIsPowerful #Community

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"What I know to be true is this—everyone in this room carries the weight of injustice... But in carrying that weight, we are also the blueprint for change." — Crystal, Fall 2025 Inland Empire Healing to Advocacy Graduate🧡💐 (2/2)

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We closed out our Fall 2025 Healing to Advocacy Graduation season in LA, welcoming 54 graduates from our Pasadena, Compton, and Inland Empire cohorts into our loving and powerful Sisterhood! Stay tuned for a special recap. #SisterhoodIsPowerful (1/2)

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Want to improve the mental health of women with incarcerated loved ones? #EndMassIncarceration ✊🏾

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No matter if it’s a shutdown, lapse, or partial payment—any impact to #SNAP is deeply felt by system-impacted Black and Brown families. #GovernmentShutdown

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Introducing Robin D.G. Kelley: Essie’s Advocacy Spotlight Speakers for this weekend's Fall 2025 Los Angeles Healing to Advocacy Graduation! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🙌🏾🧡

#Leadership #Advocacy #Graduation

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Our incarcerated loved ones are not stereotypes. They are whole human beings who are deeply loved and worthy of dignity. 🧡

#LanguageMatters #IncarceratedLivesMatter

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Thank you to our Advocacy Spotlights Melonie Griffiths (@freedomtothrive) and Paris Hatcher (@blkfemfuture) for grounding us in how Sisterhood is a vital strategy for overcoming isolation and creating avenues for collective transformation. (3/3)

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Congratulations to our Fall 2025 National Healing to Advocacy graduates! Our 59th cohort graduation welcomed 23 women with incarcerated loved ones from 12 different states into our Sisterhood. #SisterhoodIsPowerful #Healing #Advocacy #Graduation 🧡💐 (1/3)

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Our Sister Panel was truly special, featuring a grandmother, mother, and daughter who shared the intergenerational impact of incarceration and how the program fostered deeper healing and connection within their family. (2/3)