Elevating opportunities of pre-entry & re-entry

Incar­cer­a­tion sep­a­rates young peo­ple from the guid­ance, sup­port and ties they need to grow into respon­si­ble adults. However, in the Unit­ed States, the odds remain high that youth charged with a crime will be sentenced. In the U.S., over 60,000 young peo­ple are in cus­tody today. Gen­er­a­tions of struc­tur­al racism and dis­par­i­ties in how cas­es are han­dled. Young black, Lati­no and other people of color rep­re­sent a dis­pro­por­tion­ate major­i­ty of youth population in pris­ons and federally controlled facilities.