Today we're launching #OnlyYoungOnce, a campaign raising awareness of teenage and young adult cancer. Being young can be fun, exciting, awkward, challenging – it’s a unique and special time, full of big moments, milestones and memories. (1/3)

#OnlyYoungOnce

Join the SPLC for a dynamic conversation about the need for meaningful youth legal system transformation in the Deep South.

We will discuss the findings from the SPLC’s youth justice system report series #OnlyYoungOnce. Register here: bit.ly/40N7T1m

Policy reforms in #Georgia should commit to a system designed to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, reduce harm to children, and rehabilitate young people in a cost-productive way.

Read the full Georgia #OnlyYoungOnce report here: www.splcenter.org/georgia-juve...

SPLC's report, Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia’s Punitive Youth Incarceration System, investigates the policies and practices producing harm and racial disparities in Georgia’s youth legal system. Read more: www.splcenter.org/georgia-juve... #gapol #OnlyYoungOnce

In #Georgia, overemphasis on punishment pushes Black children out of traditional schools and promotes the prosecution of children as young as 13 as adults for certain offenses. Read more: www.splcenter.org/georgia-juve... #gapol #OnlyYoungOnce

Report: Georgia’s youth legal system overemphasizes punishment This ‘Only Young Once’ report explores the policies and practices that emphasize incarceration of juveniles over rehabilitation.

Georgia should create more opportunities for diversion and invest greater resources in community-based alternatives to incarceration.

Read more in the SPLC’s latest #OnlyYoungOnce report. www.splcenter.org/georgia-juve... #gapol #JusticeDay2025

Report: Georgia’s youth legal system overemphasizes punishment This ‘Only Young Once’ report explores the policies and practices that emphasize incarceration of juveniles over rehabilitation.

#OnlyYoungOnce Dismantling #Georgia Punitive #Youth #Incarceration System where policies & practices produces harm & racial disparities with overemphasis on punishment pushes Black children out of schools & promotes the prosecution of children as young as 13 www.splcenter.org/georgia-juve...

Georgia’s youth legal system is designed to incarcerate and punish, rather than restore or support children. #Georgia should commit to a system designed to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and reduce harm to children. Read more: www.splcenter.org/georgia-juve... #gapol #OnlyYoungOnce

We must envision a Florida where children are met with support, not handcuffs. Read more about Florida’s school-to-prison pipeline and youth legal system in our report, #OnlyYoungOnce: bit.ly/47Mxtpm

Florida’s minimum age of incarceration and prosecution is currently only 7 years old – the youngest age for states with a minimum age. #OnlyYoungOnce

Report: Florida’s self-proclaimed ‘tough love’ policies hurt Black youth Florida’s investment in youth discipline has produced a system that disproportionately pushes Black children out of schools and into carceral facilities.

They are Building Prisons!
Florida invested in a school-to-prison pipeline. Florida’s youth legal system disproportionately impacts Black children.
Southern Poverty Law #OnlyYoungOnce report explores the scope and impact of this system and ways #Florida can disrupt it: bit.ly/47Mxtpm