The #SchoolsNotPrisons tour is back!
Join us on Saturday, October 29th, at LA Trade Tech in Los Angeles CA for the #SchoolsNotPrisons: We Are LA Music Fest. A live concert to take back our city and bring people together. Featuring IDK, Reverie, El Compa Negro, Pamé, Jason Chu, The Tiarras and much more!
#SchoolsNotPrisons is partnering with The Los Angeles Community Action Network and Community Coalition to host this free, all ages Music Festival in Los Angeles on October 29th at LA Trade Tech from 12 pm – 5 pm.
It’s time we invest in communities NOT prisons!
The United States spends more than $80 billion dollars every year on incarcerating youth and adults in jails, prisons, juvenile halls and immigrant prisons. Since 1990, state and local spending on higher education, like colleges and universities, hasn’t increased at all while spending on jails and prisons has drastically increased by 89%. (Source: US Dept of Education)
It is time to end this culture of punishment, and replace it with a culture of prevention.
#SchoolsNotPrisons partners are calling for investments in real safety: more funding for health, education and youth. Not more punishment. Since…
Having an incarcerated parent is a form of trauma, and children who have a parent in jail or prison are…
Putting youth in jail or prison doesn’t make our communities any safer. In fact, it can cause more trauma and…
40,000 immigrants and refugees are incarcerated in immigrant prisons across the US, breaking apart families and communities. The majority of…
“School pushout” is what happens when certain students are deprived of the education and opportunities that all young people deserve.…
A thriving online community dedicated to ending mass incarceration through the power of art, music, culture and activism. #SchoolsNotPrisons partners with communities hardest hit by mass incarceration to transform the justice system across the country.
