Chicago Legal Advocacy For Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM)

Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM) is a not-for-profit agency founded in 1985 to help women prisoners and their children maintain contact. Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers provides legal and educational services to maintain the bonds between imprisoned mothers and their children. CLAIM advocates for policies and programs that benefit families of imprisoned mothers and reduce incarceration of women and girls. Vision CLAIM's vision for the future is one in which the cycle of intergenerational incarceration has been broken and women's incarceration is minimal to the extent it exists at all. CLAIM envisions a day when social policy is humane, just, and women shape the policies that affect them and their families.