Judith Clark Hour Children

Judith Clark is the Community Justice Advocate for Hour Children, which oversees the Children’s Center programs in Bedford Hills and Taconic women’s prisons and at Rikers Island, in New York City, and provides housing, family reunification and services for women emerging from incarceration and their children. During her 38 years in prison, she worked with her sisters to create community based organizations to address the challenges they faced and their desires to grow, to take responsibility for the harm they caused and repair their relationships with their families and communities. She was a founder of ACE (AIDS Counseling and Education) and the committee that helped bring back college after public funding was eliminated.  Working in the Children’s Center, she helped develop programs for mothers to sustain bonds with their children and mentored new mothers living in the prison nursery. In her current position, she is part of several coalition efforts working on legislative and policy changes critical to women and their families impacted by the criminal legal system. She also is a senior consultant for the Women and Justice Project, and on the advisory board of the Survivors Justice Project, which works to utilize the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act to win the early release of many of the sisters and brothers she left behind.