Advancing Policy Reform
YSRP aspires to end the practice of charging youth in adult courts. In order to do this, the law must change. Until then, YSRP’s policy advocacy chips away at the harmful impacts of adult incarceration on young people and their families.
As part of our policy agenda at YSRP, we have an obligation to advocate with—not just for—our client partners. Their stories and voices belong in the rooms where decisions are made
YSRP Policy Goals
End prosecution of youth as adults
Keep youth out of adult jail/prison
End youth incarceration
Treat children as children
Improve conditions for youth who are charged as adults
