Back to School Report: Re-engage Students and Close the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Sentencing Project brings you a guide and outline of how to not engage in traditional forms of discipline and expulsion that has historically lead…
Category: Youth Incarceration
Racial and Ethnic Disparities Drag Down Youth Justice Reform
This is shared directly from The Sentencing Project. Please save and review this deeply important research and resource: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Profound racial and ethnic disparities…
State Juvenile Justice Task Force Finds Too Many First Time Offenders Put In System For Low-Level Crimes
Although a local or state view of Pennsylvania, this 22 minute segment speaks to issues that are happening in all states. You can listen to…
Raising the Age Without Expanding Secure Confinement in the Youth Justice System
Over the past decade, great strides have been taken to reduce the number of youth incarcerated and to address the racial disparity in the youth…
Conscious Discipline
If you were able to see our most recent youth webinar series featuring our Assistant Director, Nicole Hellthaler, you would have heard the words Conscious…
The Landscape of Youth Incarceration
This summer, PYP will turn our attention to a series of webinars focused on youth yoga programming, as we anticipate a return inside soon to…
Yoga helps Las Cruces Public Schools students, staff relax, get moving, think more clearly
We appreciate how holistic this approach sounds, offering yoga not just to the students, but to the staff and families as well. And professional development…
The Invitation with Retired Judge and PYP Yoga Facilitator, Victor Reyes
June 1 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am PDT RSVP here: https://community.prisonyoga.org/event/the-invitation-with-retired-judge-and-pyp-yoga-facilitator-victor-reyes/ Victor Reyes spent most of his legal career working in the Colorado Criminal Justice System, first…
Youth Justice News
The Sentencing Project recently released an update on their fight for youth justice. They are devoting increased time and energy to address racial disparities and…
Opinion: I was sentenced to 30 years to life at 16. I shouldn’t have been sent into the adult system.
The article below was recently shared with me by Carol Sullivan, a fellow yoga facilitator in Denver and leader of Yoga And Then Some. Author…