About

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Our Mission

To provide services to Alabama’s incarcerated women with an emphasis on enhancing personal growth and strengthening the bonds between inmate mothers and their children.


Our Vision

To create a criminal justice model that demonstrates respect for and understands the rights of the children affected by their mothers’ imprisonment and recognizes and helps to address the many burdens carried by the children and families as a result of incarceration.

A criminal justice system that only incarcerates women who are a danger to society.

A prison and an aftercare system that will truly help the mothers re-establish themselves and reunite them with their children.


Our History

Aid to Inmate Mothers (AIM) Inc., was founded in 1987 by Church Women United, The Alabama Prison Project, The Alabama Department of Corrections and a group of committed volunteers who discovered that there were many women in prison who never saw their children. AIM’s founders recognized that children of incarcerated parents needed regular contact with their mothers, yet often couldn’t visit because their guardians were unwilling or unable to take them. In 1990, AIM separated from the Alabama Prison Project and became an independent nonprofit agency.

With a strong, statewide volunteer network, AIM continues to provide monthly visits for children to reunite with their incarcerated mothers. Guardians report that their children’s emotional health profoundly improves when the children see their mothers and help them perform better in every aspect of their daily lives.

Our visitation program has been the focus of our agency since the beginning, but through the continued support from our volunteers and sponsors, we have been able to implement more programs. Our expanded services include a monthly storybook program, summer camp for kids, family outreach programs, birthday and Christmas gifts for families, and classes for the mothers in prison. Our services are extended to mothers at Tutwiler Prison, Tutwiler Annex, Birmingham Work Release, and the Montgomery Community Based Facility.

In 2010, we helped more than 200 women adjust to the outside world—many reuniting with their children. Only 11% of the women returned—as compared to 23% recidivism rate of women who had not gone through our programs.

In 2011, started a project that we had always dreamed of—a transitional home for women leaving prison. In 2012, AIM was given approval on a grant from the City of Montgomery to purchase the building. In June 2013, we became the proud owners of 660 Morgan Avenue. We have since moved all of our offices to the new building.

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