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In the July issue of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, The Sentencing Project's Research Analyst Ashley Nellis coauthors an article with Iowa Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Coordinator Brad Richardson on various policies and practices that contribute to minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system, along with suggesting strategies for reform.

"For decades, Indiana's answer to crime has been to adopt tough new laws and strict sentencing policies to make sure offenders stay behind bars," the Indianapolis Star reported.

"Since 2000, the legislature has passed  117 criminal laws or penalty enhancements. In the same time, Indiana lawmakers have passed not one measure that reduces a prison sentence."

"Almost 10 percent of young African American men are behind bars. Many legal scholars argue that the prison system locks those men out of civic life long after time served -- and that the social fabric of all American communities suffers as a result," NPR's Talk of the Nation reports. Guests include Charlayne Hunter-Gault, correspondent, NPR; Charles Blow, columnist, New York Times; Dwayne Betts, spokesperson, Campaign For Youth Justice; Michelle Alexander, author, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness" 

Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson writes about the long-term consequences of criminal justice policy bias brought out by a class-action suit against the U.S. Census Bureau.

Following a peaceful protest which resulted in a misdemeanor charge that was eventually dropped, a Michigan woman found that she was unable to get a job with the U.S. Census for having "a positive match with a criminal history record maintained by the FBI."

"We like to think that you are innocent until proven guilty in our system, but using an arrest record turns that around on its head," stated Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project.