Abstract
Youth of color have been overrepresented throughout the juvenile justice system for decades. Despite being the focus of Congressional legislation, juvenile justice coalition and advocate reports, and state and local jurisdictional reform efforts this issue persists and is increasing. This project utilizes various literature sources including: books, academic journals, reports/articles. The main analysis is built from the results of an interview conducted by Star County (a pseudonym) staff in 2008, to identify perceptions of past committee members and begin revamping their reform efforts. The work of reducing Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) is an on-going progression, which is never totally complete. Although it may be impossible to eliminate DMC altogether, it has been proven that certain interventions can help to balance the disproportion. Solutions to this problem are localized and specific to the population being examined.