To champion the reproductive wellbeing of incarcerated women and to create a world where they can thrive in their communities.
ARRWIP is a research group at Johns Hopkins University led by Dr. Carolyn Sufrin, an obstetrician-gynecologist, researcher, medical anthropologist, and author of Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars. A national leader and advocate on reproductive health care for incarcerated women, she has been working on reproductive health issues among incarcerated people since 2006.
Our goal is to create opportunities to improve reproductive wellbeing for people affected by the criminal legal system – including making full-scope, compassionate reproductive health care accessible for people experiencing incarceration and advocating for alternatives to incarceration.