Shifting Funds to Effective Community-Based Models
Given the grave damage incarceration does to youth and families, as well as its abysmal public safety outcomes, communities are calling for an end to the youth prison model. A national movement is advancing to shift resources away from simply warehousing kids and instead investing in communities to provide youth with the tools they need to succeed.
Public Welfare Foundation supports programs that advance state policy reforms to dramatically restrict youth incarceration, abandon the prison model, and adopt community-based approaches for youth in the juvenile justice system.
We don’t need more youth prisons, and we certainly don’t need to put more taxpayer dollars into a failed model. Working with our partners, Public Welfare Foundation is forging a new path forward that empowers communities to provide proven and effective supports for its young people.
Closing Youth Prison Resources
Public Welfare Foundation Announces New Grants
January 14, 2020The Board of Directors of Public Welfare Foundation approved over $5.1 million in grants to eight organizations, including $2.8 million as part of the Workers’…
Public Welfare Foundation Announces New Grants
September 16, 2019The Board of Directors of Public Welfare Foundation approved over $2.1 million in grants to six organizations, including $800,000 as part of the Workers’ Right…
Closing Youth Prisons
Ending Incarceration of Children in Milwaukee: Youth Justice Milwaukee
Youth Justice Milwaukee works to close Wisconsin’s youth prisons advocating for community-based alternatives to incarceration. Milwaukee County has seen a surge in racial disparity in arrests and convictions of young people which Youth Justice Milwaukee is trying to combat through a broad based coalition focused on remaking the landscape of the juvenile corrections system.
150 Years of Incarcerating Children is Enough: New Jersey Institute For Social Justice
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice has launched the “150 years is enough” campaign to close down two juvenile prisons in New Jersey. They work with a broad array of local and national partners to stope the use of juvenile prisons and instead establish a more humane, treatment-focused juvenile justice system.
