Youth Art and Self-Empowerment Project YASP
The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) is building a youth-led movement to end the practice of trying and incarcerating young people as adults and create a world without youth incarceration. Through their work in the Philadelphia jails, YASP provides space for incarcerated young people to express themselves creatively and to develop as leaders both within and beyond the prison walls. Young people who have been through the court system are at the forefront of YASP, leading the movement to keep young people free and to create new possibilities for youth around the city.
Awarded Grants
2021
Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR)
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Overview
Ami Joelle Glazer will be working in collaboration with Youth Art and Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) to create a 7-part video series on youth incarceration in Pennsylvania. YASP is a member of Care, not Control (C,NC), a coalition of young people and youth advocates working to end youth incarceration so each episode will be centered around one of C,NC's seven core demands for ending youth incarceration in PA. Focused on the experiences of formerly incarcerated youth, as well as information on the historical and political contexts of youth incarceration in PA, the series will amplify YASP's mission and illustrate the detrimental effects of youth incarceration through data and personal testimony.
