UNPRISON® Project
Freedom on the Inside
For over a decade, the unPrison® Project works to build literacy, mentoring, and life skills capacity for women and girls in prisons, and for their children, to help cultivate critical thinking as tools to plan, set goals, and prepare for successful life after prison, and at the same time bring public awareness about mass incarceration.
We also work with incarcerated men and youth, as well as in treatment centers for substance use.
Our Mission
The unPrison® Project’s mission is to empower
incarcerated women and girls through four goals:
Life skills
Cultivating critical thinking
Create plans for life after prison
Stay connected to their children.
Our Goals
At unPrison® Project our goal is to uplift the
potential of women and girls in prison by working to:
Build better lives for women in prison
Unlock Potential
Make a Better World
About the Founder
unPrison Project was founded in 2010 by Deborah Jiang-Stein. Deborah spent the first year of her life in incarceration, then bounced into foster care until she was adopted in a permanent family. After overcoming the realities of her past – including addictions of her own – Deborah set out to empower and inspire incarcerated women with the hope and tools needed to succeed in life after prison.
Deborah Jiang-Stein • Founder/CEO
awarded as L’Oréal Woman of Worth
Today, over 250,000 women are incarcerated in the United States, and 2.7 million children under the age of eighteen have a parent in prison.
We strive to bring more public awareness to the needs and lives of incarcerated women and their children.
To date, the unPrison Project has already reached over 20,000 incarcerated women, or 10% of the total female prison population in the U.S
There is never room for racism in our work, our actions, our companies, our communities.
unPrison Project stands with our communities, friends, and families in condemning all acts of violence. We want to be a force of change, starting with ourselves.