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ATLANTA 鈥� Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) released a report denouncing the glaring racial disparities and systemic failures inherent within Georgia鈥檚 youth legal system. The report, Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia鈥檚 Punitive Youth Incarceration System, examines how Georgia鈥檚 justice system fails and isolates youth by emphasizing incarceration over support and services. This prejudicial trend and the laws that support it undermine the future of countless Black children, who are disproportionately impacted by the state鈥檚 harmful youth legal system.听

鈥淭his report is a wake-up call,鈥� says Delvin Davis, senior policy analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the report鈥檚 author. 鈥淕eorgia鈥檚 youth legal system, which was designed to incarcerate and punish, is not just outdated鈥攊ts policies are actively harming our young people and communities. The 人兽性交鈥檚 Only Young Once report presents a clear path forward to creating a system that is fair, effective, and focused on rehabilitation.鈥澨�

Only Young Once seeks to inform the public about the intent that fuels Georgia鈥檚 school-to-prison pipeline, which include zero-tolerance disciplinary policies that ship students to alternative schools, inadequate funding for mental health and support services and racial bias in school discipline. These factors contribute to systemic school pushout, racial disparities in youth incarceration and a cycle of harm that can have long-term effects on Georgia鈥檚 most vulnerable families.听

鈥淲e only get one chance to invest in our young people鈥檚 futures. The 人兽性交鈥檚 Only Young Once report is a call to action for Georgia鈥檚 leaders, educators and community members to unite and reimagine its youth justice system, challenging us to uplift and empower our children rather than punishing and discarding them,鈥� Davis concluded.听

Top findings from the 人兽性交鈥檚 Only Young Once report include: 听听

• Georgia is one of the few states in the U.S. that prosecutes 17-year-olds as adults and prosecutes children as young as 13 as adults for certain offenses 鈥� detaining them in adult facilities.听
• While Black children in Georgia鈥檚 schools make up 37.5% of students, they also make up well over half of all out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and assignments to alternative schools.听
• Black youth in Georgia are more than twice as likely to be charged with an offense compared to their white counterparts, and more than three times as likely to be charged in court as an adult.听
• Black youth make up 35.5% of youth in Georgia, but comprise over 60% of all youth court referrals, delinquent adjudications, youth that are incarcerated and youth sentenced in adult court.听
• Georgia spends $217,517 annually to incarcerate a child in its prison system, only to produce a three-year recidivism rate of 35.1%.听

Read the report here.听

Editor鈥檚 Note: Georgia has a history of 鈥渢ough on crime鈥� laws that disproportionately punish Black students, even though youth crime decreased by 80% in the state between 2000 and 2020. 听

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