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The Youth Anti-Prison Project () is an Alternative To Incarceration program that supports justice impacted young adults who are serving long community supervision sentences within the NYC area. YAPP has several academies that retain them for the full years of their correctional sentences. In NYC youth by the thousands receive 6 months detained in a city jail cage & 5 years on probation & community supervision with no community support. We are building that very community that will house, employ and educate them for their entire community sentence. Our pedagogy is rooted in restorative justice practices, the non traditional approach to incarceration & interactive learning to support participants in engaging deeply with the material and each other. The college-level course covers trauma-informed care, youth development, history of mass incarceration and a social justice framework, for career advancement. Students engage in activities, role play exercises, and develop les