She doesn’t remember much from this time period, saying she was then using meth to function to “burn all the bad memories out of my brain.” She visited her mother in prison sporadically, saying, “My mom was never there for me. “The day my mom got arrested - that’s when I started f*cking up in school," she said.Īlysia completed middle school and the first month of ninth grade, but then dropped out. Around this time, Alysia says she received a phone call from her mom’s then-boyfriend, informing her that her mom was being arrested in the front lawn of his house. The oldest of five siblings, Alysia helped raise her brothers and sisters, saying once that her fondest childhood memory was “watching my siblings grow up.” When she was thirteen, her biological father - who she had met for the first time six months prior - died suddenly. She was detained at the Juvenile Detention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where we met.ĭuring her childhood, Alysia was shuffled between homes, often staying with her grandma, her aunt, or a friend’s house. It was her step dad that introduced her to meth when she was 14, after her mother was arrested and sentenced to three years in state prison for car theft. When Alysia was 16 years old, the police raided her aunt’s trailer and arrested her for being under the influence of methamphetamine. At 24, Kosofsky was the youngest woman ever exhibited in the festival. Images from "Alysia," which is ongoing, were part of Kosofsky's exhibition this year at the Visa Pour L'Image International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France. Here, Isadora Kosofsky - who has been a documentary photographer since she was 14 - tells the story of a young woman named Alysia, who she started following in 2012, during her time in and out of a New Mexico youth detention facility. This story is part of Kids Incarcerated, a Teen Vogue series on youth incarceration in the United States for National Youth Justice Awareness Month.
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