Mission

A project of the Legal Rights Center, End Youth Prisons MN is a storytelling, advocacy, and organizing campaign to end youth incarceration in Minnesota and build power among young people and their families.

We do this through the use of storytelling & the arts, radical theories, and direct action organizing to shift local narratives and policy.

VISION

By creating spaces for Black & brown youth and their families to share their own stories, deepen their ideas for liberation, and organize to build power among youth, we will end minnesota’s youth carceral system.

Goals

Our campaign has short, intermediate, and long term goals with the ultimate goal of ending youth incarceration in minnesota.