Newsroom If you are with the press, please sign in here to automatically receive news releases and advisories Building Blocks for Youth Reports in the news: The Color of Justice: An Analysis of Juvenile Adult Court Transfers in California And Justice For Some Youth Crime/Adult Time: Is Justice Served? Off Balance: Youth, Race & Crime in the News Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois' Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court A Tale of Two Jurisdictions: Youth Crime and Detention Rates in Maryland & the District of Columbia The Building Blocks for Youth Initiative and its partners in the news: Doing Justice To Juveniles, an op-ed from BBY coordinator, Mark Soler, published in The Washington Post, November 11, 2001 Good News: Youth Crime Down, an op-ed from BBY coordinator, Mark Soler, published in The Washington Post, December 31, 2000 Other Juvenile Justice stories in the news: Miami Herald and Pittsburgh Post: Series on Kids in Prison Three Year Nightmare: A 60 Minutes II story about abusive practices and lack of mental health services in South Dakota's juvenile correctional facilities, the subject of advocacy efforts by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and a recently settled lawsuit by the Youth Law Center. Aired on CBS on January 2, 2001 Juvenile justice from both sides of the bench: Is the system race biased?. Aired on PBS' Frontline Thursday January 30, 2001 San Francisco Chronicle - "Role reversal," December 21, 1999 ABCNews.com - "A Matter of Time: How Juvenile Justice Systems Fail Kids," February 26, 2000 Newshour with Jim Lehrer - "California and Youth Crime," February 29, 2000 ABC Nightline Series - "Kids in Court: Crime and Punishment," March 2 - 6, 2000

1. The Color of Justice

About the Color of Justice Report:
• The Sacramento Bee, February 3, 2000

2. And Justice For Some

Editorials:
• Washington Post, William Raspberry Column, April 28, 2000
• St. Petersburg Times, April 28, 2000
• New York Daily News, Stanley Crouch, April 27, 2000
• San Francisco Chronicle Editorial, April 27, 2000
News Articles:
• National Public Radio, April 26, 2000
• The Cleveland Plain-Dealer (AP Story), April 26, 2000
• The Deseret News (AP Story), April 26, 2000
• The Louisville Courier-Journal, April 26, 2000
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 26, 2000
• The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 26, 2000
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 26, 2000
• APBnews.com, April 25, 2000
Videotape coverage of News Conference:
• ABC World News Tonight, April 25, 2000

3. Youth Crime/Adult Time: Is Justice Served?

News Articles:
• PBS
• About.com, 10/30/00
• Talk Left, 10/26/00

4. Off Balance: Youth, Race & Crime in the News

News Articles:
• AlterNet, April 24, 2001
• Washington Post, April 11, 2001
• USA Today, April 10, 2001
• Tompain.com
• San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 2001
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 10, 2001
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 10, 2001
Television and Radio:
• Videotape coverage of News Conference: C-SPAN, April 10, 2001 (requires Real Player)
• Transcript of CBS Early Show, April 11, 2001

5. Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois' Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court

News Articles:
• Washington Post, April 26, 2001

6. A Tale of Two Jurisdictions: Youth Crime and Detention Rates in Maryland & the District of Columbia

News Articles:
• A Tale of Two Jurisdictions: Youth Crime and Detention Rates in Maryland and the District of Columbia
  An op-ed from Justice Policy Institute President Vincent Schiraldi, December 2001
• Doing Justice To Juveniles
  An op-ed from Building Blocks for Youth coordinator, Mark Soler, published in The Washington Post, November 11, 2001
• The Baltimore Sun, October 23, 2001