The Gault Center

Imagine cutting funding for the defense of children caught up in the juvenile court system. Well, that's the world we live in: The @GaultCenter supports advocates who defend those children, and they've lost just half their funding. defendyouthrights.org/get-involved/d…

Community violence intervention programs are already stretched thin—and now Trump’s reckless cuts will gut lifesaving efforts even further. These programs work. Cutting them puts more lives at risk. @CBPS_Collective @CrimeVictimsOrg @GaultCenter

BIG & BREAKING: Our bill prohibiting youth shackling, which had previously passed the Senate unanimously, has now been conformed to the House bill and has once again passed the Senate UNANIMOUSLY! It’s on its way to the governor's desk!! #VALeg

"Every child and young person sent away has the potential to someday be an indispensable community member on the outside. We just need to give them that chance." statecourtreport.org/our-work/analy…

“Oftentimes what pulls kids and families into these systems is unmet needs. It makes more sense for kids to have their health care tied to a health care system, not a carceral system.” thepublicsradio.org/npr/health-car…

BREAKING: HB2222 Prohibiting youth shackling UNANIMOUSLY passed @VaHouse!!! “It’s astonishing in the amount of trauma it causes to children,” Amy Borror of @GaultCenter says about the practice. Many thanks to Delegate @Rae_Cousins23 for patroning our urgently needed bill! #VALeg

“There’s absolutely no evidence that is going to be helpful in reducing the level of threats.” wapo.st/3CvHJHh

"When we stopped locking young people up for drug crimes, the sky didn’t fall; instead, crime kept declining. 'We could make that same choice about guns. We could make that same choice about stolen cars and assaults.'” nytimes.com/2025/01/28/mag…

What a positive step for the children of Virginia. Thanks to @Rae_Cousins23 and @SenBagby for patroning bills to end the indiscriminate shackling of children in VA’s juvenile courts. Special thanks to @RussetPerry, who made this legislation even stronger today. Justice Forward.

"King’s dream was not an empty promise or shallow vision of racial reconciliation. His dream was a demand—for justice and the dismantling of systems built on violence and exploitation." missouriindependent.com/2025/01/20/mar…

"If prison was designed to punish an adult, it is clearly torture for a kid." baltimoresun.com/2024/12/13/an-…

"More families are willing to work with the department now that money isn’t a factor We’re able to just provide services without parents weighing the cost. They’re not worried that they’re going to have to pay for their child’s attorney.” boltsmag.org/michigan-juven…

"If you really care about our safety, you would do things like make more affordable housing, bring back school routes, and make it easier for kids to earn money. Please just give us more opportunities to do good in life and just be kids." cincinnati.com/story/opinion/…

Two recent articles in The New York Times mischaracterize Raise the Age and require immediate correction from the statewide coalition. Read our full statement here: raisetheageny.org/wp-content/upl…

“The whole point is, these are kids. They’re supposed to make mistakes. And if you don’t have a judge or a district attorney who take that into account, these kids’ lives are basically over.” propublica.org/article/tennes…

Summit Day 2! #Summit2024 #Denver

Great first day of Summit! #Summit2024 #DenverSummit

“I didn’t really understand what was really going on. He told me, ‘You’re getting bound over to the adult court system.' He didn’t break down all the motions I had to go through. He didn’t tell me none of that.” themarshallproject.org/2024/09/12/cuy…

"It would be positively medieval to treat a criminally charged child the same as an adult." latimes.com/opinion/story/…

“The vision is to really leverage neuroscience in the pursuit of a more fair justice system instead of continuing to label kids as somehow dangerous.” scheerpost.com/2024/07/28/new…