Empowering Incarcerated People WITH Beauty and Hygiene.
Breaking Barriers & Building Confidence
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Your donation directly contributes to more humanized living conditions for all incarcerated people. Hygiene is a human right, and you can play a vital role in ensuring our criminal justice system treats it as such.
“Beauty isn’t a matter of vanity. It’s a matter of survival. And for incarcerated people in America, it’s getting increasingly difficult to survive.
Since I was 13, I have interviewed over 200 formerly incarcerated people across America. The experience they have in common: the struggle to maintain personal hygiene, and preserve dignity and self-respect behind bars where they are constantly dehumanized and where overcrowding, violence, and sexual abuse are normalized.
We’re here to change that. At Beauty Beyond Bars, we’re meeting incarcerated people where they’re at — detention centers, jails, and prisons — to deliver essential beauty and hygiene products they wouldn’t have received otherwise unless purchased via commissary, a store for incarcerated people only few can afford.”
LEA NEPOMUCENO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF BEAUTY BEYOND BARS
Conversation. Beauty. legislation. Donation.
We’re bringing beauty behind bars, but taking the conversation beyond. This means advocating for legislation that humanizes incarcerated people’s living conditions: from unshackling incarcerated pregnant women while they’re giving birth to requiring that facilities make accommodations for religious headwear such as hijabs.
For us, beauty goes beyond that of appearances. It’s about restoring human dignity in our systems and dismantling the notion that “a person is their crime.” Prisons have the potential to be spaces of rehabilitation, and we’re here to make that a reality.
