Racial Equity- Mentoring-Social Justice-Prison Reform-Housing for Women
BEAUTY AFTER THE BARS
Support Beauty After the Bars
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and help women & girls returning home . Your generous donation will fund our mission to keep Women & Girls out of jail and prison- and provide A SAFE HOME.
BEAUTY AFTER THE BARS GALA - NOVEMBER 10,2023
About Us
Beauty After the Bars Mission
Beauty after the Bars (BATB), is a non profit organization based in Charlotte, NC- Mecklenburg County. Founded by Tiawana Brown, born and raised in Charlotte, NC. She is a formerly incarcerated woman and a Board member/active member of the of The National Council. BATB provides mentoring, advocacy, education, and supports racial equity, and economic mobility for the communities that disproportionately affected and our most marginalized communities.
BATB Supports the successful return of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated mothers, women and girls. Our mission and purpose of the organization is to provide education and advocacy to keep women, girls and youth out of jail, prison, and the justice system.
Interupts the school to prison pipeline
We assist women and girls released from prison and jail by offering programs and resources-through our collective partnerships with other grassroots organizations, SAVE ,Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, CMPD, and Mecklenburg County Dentention Center.
BATB also provides support and assistance for those that are currently incarcerated with reentry needs.
"Education instead of Incarceration"
Working to keep our women, girls, and youth out of jail and prison.
Our advocacy and education work will address issues with Racial Justice and Economic Mobility and implement change.
Ramona Brant Legacy lives on. We love you Ramona.
Advocate
Wife & Mother
Wife & Mother
A strong advocate for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. Ramona's memory and hard work will not be in vain. We carry on her mission and vision - The Ramona's House Foundation.
Wife & Mother
Wife & Mother
Wife & Mother
Ramona will forever be missed and was survived by her two sons, husband, grandchildren, and many family and friends.
History Maker
Wife & Mother
History Maker
In the short two years since she was pardoned by President Barack Obama, Ramona made an impact by striving to change laws and correct injustices done to women just like her.
Fighting For Change
National Council
Pardoned By Barack Obama
National Council
A 501 (c) 3, The mission of the National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls (National Council) is to end the incarceration of women and girls by building a movement grounded in sisterhood, solidarity and human rights.
CAN-DO
Pardoned By Barack Obama
National Council
A 501(c) 3 nonprofit foundation that advocates Clemency for All Non-violent Drug Offenders. These are the faces of the drug war. Behind every face is a human with a story. Overly punitive drug laws create negative consequences that trigger a chain reaction upon innocent family members, friends and our society. http://www.candoclemency.com
Pardoned By Barack Obama
Pardoned By Barack Obama
Pardoned By Barack Obama
On March 30, 2016, President Barack Obama granted commutation of sentence to 61 individuals. On the same day The President also stopped by a White House meeting to meet with Ramona Brant and other individuals who had been granted clemency in the past.
https://medium.com/@ObamaWhiteHouse/life-after-prison-ramona-brant-83212d36ea86
ALARMING STATISTICS
Welcome to the SAFE HOUSING NETWORK
Tiawana Homes is a Housing program and Sober Living space-through Beauty after the Bars that provides SAFE Housing for Women and Girls. Start up Funding for this program is through Susan Burton - A NEW WAY OF LIFE- BATB is the first and only approved Safe Home replicator in the City of Charlotte and the State of North Carolina.