The Gault Center

The Gault Center (formerly NJDC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting justice for all children by ensuring excellence in youth defense.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

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. https://t.co/8IPbB1xDyZ

[GIFFORDS @GIFFORDS_org]

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

[Justice Forward VA @JusticeFwdVa]

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

[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"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."
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

“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.”
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[Justice Forward VA @JusticeFwdVa]

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

[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

“There’s absolutely no evidence that is going to be helpful in reducing the level of threats.”
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"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.'”
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[Rob Poggenklass @rpogge]

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.

[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"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."
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"If prison was designed to punish an adult, it is clearly torture for a kid."
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"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.”
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"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."
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[Raise The Age New York @RaiseTheAgeNY]

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: https://t.co/bR2vRlh5Tg

[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

“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.”
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

Summit Day 2! #Summit2024 #Denver

[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

Great first day of Summit! #Summit2024 #DenverSummit

[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

“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.”
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

"It would be positively medieval to treat a criminally charged child the same as an adult."
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[The Gault Center @GaultCenter]

“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.”
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