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Mission Statement. The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems ...
- About the Space - Youth Justice Coalition
The CJC works to challenge the criminalization and mass...
- Youth Justice Coalition
The Youth Justice Coalition works to build an abolitionist,...
- About the Space - Youth Justice Coalition
The CJC works to challenge the criminalization and mass incarceration of youth and communities; police unaccountability and state violence (ie: police brutality, ICE raids, gang injunctions); or the creation and/or expansion of the prison industrial complex.
Being a Youth incarcerated by L.A. County Probation! 😱😱😱 It costs over $830,000 per year to incarcerate one young person. 😱 Chuco's Justice Center used to be Kenyon Juvenile Courthouse- in 2019 we secured a 10 year lease to transform the space into Chuco's Justice Center East after being displaced from our Inglewood location. 📢 ...
The Youth Justice Coalition works to build an abolitionist, youth-led movement to end police terror, mass incarceration & criminalization of youth. 🖤🤎.
In 2003, Jesse “Chuco” Becerra, a devoted youth organizer and volunteer at the Youth Justice Coalition, lost his life to gun violence. The memory of his generous, welcoming and kind nature is embedded in the mission of the facility that bears his name, Chuco’s Justice Center.
16 mar 2022 · Chuco’s Justice Center is a Youth and Community Center and a High School on the east side of South Central. We are also a NO COP ZONE. No arrests, migra, detention or calling 12. Instead we partner & invest in Peace-building, in partnership with @2ndcallwolfpack PCITI and many others.
14 wrz 2022 · Chuco’s Justice Center in South Central used to be a juvenile courthouse where young people waited to be sentenced to prison. Now it’s a community center, alternative high school, and headquarters for the Youth Justice Coalition. Photo courtesy of the Youth Justice Coalition.
