📣 Join us on September 18th for a special event @ Cherry Street Pier honoring the creativity, vision and leadership of young people impacted by incarceration! 🤩🤩

Care, Not Control: The Zine is here! Check out our brand new zine to learn more about PA’s commitment to investing in youth incarceration, despite youth prisons serving as hubs of violence and trauma. It’s time to stop exploiting young people and calling it “rehabilitation”. 1/3

We're counting down to our resource table this Saturday at APM's Gun Violence Prevention event! Stop by and pick up CNC goodies, 6/27 11am-2pm at Hartranft Community Center 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Philly, the No Kids In Prison magazine is here! Original art & writing, editorial curation, magazine production and distribution all led by directly impacted young people. DM us today to get your copy and join the conversation about why youth need care, not cages.

More than 80% of kids who are connected to a diversion program successfully complete it with no further escalation. No child belong behind bars! Come to our town hall TOMORROW at 6pm to learn how community-led diversion can transform outcomes for youth. Bring a friend!

Come to our town hall next Thurs to ask your questions, hear from @repkrajewski and experts about how HB 144 will impact our communities, and take action to advocate for the changes you want to see for youth!

Come out tomorrow to watch Juvenile: Five Stories and discuss the juvenile justice system and the care that all young people deserve. 📆 Tomorrow! Tuesday, March 10th 🕑 7pm-9:30pm 📍Providence Meeting House @ 105 N Providence Rd, Media, PA 19063 #CareNotControl #FreeOurYouth

Last week, over 25 immigrant justice and youth justice groups signed on to our call to close Abraxas Academy, where migrants and PA youth are being held. Abraxas has had numerous allegations of unthinkable abuse and neglect. It is no place for any child!

Our next Discussion Group is coming up! We're hosting a film screening with Providence Friends Meeting in Delco next Tuesday March 10th! Join us in Media to view this impactful documentary and discuss juvenile justice issues and why we need to reimagine responses to harm. 📽️📽️✊🏽

🚨 🚨 Have you watched our podcast episodes yet? Episode 4 dropped today, and this clip is from our restorative justice circle featured in episode 3! 📹 📹 linktr.ee/carenotcontrolpa

What have you been hearing recently about immigration issues? How are immigration justice and the fight for abolition connected? Come out and share your reflections with us at our Discussion Group tomorrow @ 5:30 in West Philly. See you there!! 4919 Pentridge St. Philadelphia

Right now, there are nearly 32,000 children confined away from home in the U.S. As of 2023, 1,122 youth were incarcerated in Pennsylvania alone. This number does not include youth held in adult prisons and jails. Kids need care - not cages!

Only 14% of all youth under 18 in the U.S. are Black, yet 47% of boys and 39% of girls in juvenile facilities are Black. The U.S. is failing its children - especially Black children!

The U.S. confines youth at a rate that's more than 2x the global average - and well above that of all other NATO member countries. Kids need care, not cages!

Join us for a screening of Juvenile: Five Stories, a documentary featuring young people sharing their experiences in the legal system 🎞️🎞️ Stick around to process these powerful stories and discuss the systemic issues we see in our communities. We can't wait to see you!

Our second podcast episode dropped on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music! We're focusing on restorative justice and the roots of the systematic oppression we see in the "justice system." What does community-led care, healing, and accountability look like? linktr.ee/carenotcontrolpa

🗣️ Financially burdening kids and their families is not justice. 👏🏽👏🏽 PA needs to invest in its young people and communities instead of extracting money from them. ‼️‼️‼️ #CareNotControl #FreeOurYouth #NoKidsinPrison