Articles by PPI staff:

Census

Beginning of the end for ‘prison-based gerrymandering’, by Peter Wagner Washington Post, July 15, 2012
Prison Populations Create Complications at Redistricting Time, by Peter Wagner, Missouri Municipal Review, January 2012
Census Bureau Contributes to Prison-based Gerrymandering, by Leah Sakala, Race, Poverty and the Environment Vol. 18 No. 2, Urban Habitat, December 2011
Reform #4: Change Where Incarcerated People are Counted, by Peter Wagner, Insights on Law & Society, American Bar Association, Winter 2010
Prisons Warp the Vote, by Brett Blank, TomPaine.com, January 8, 2008
Census’ cell count steals voting power by Emily Bazelon and Peter Wagner, Newsday, September 8, 2004
Prisoners of the Census.org unveiled June 30, 2003 and updated at least weekly with factsheets, maps and more than 100 essays.
Diluting democracy: Census quirk fuels prison expansion, [PDF], 1 page factsheet, April 2004
Exclude prisoners from local redistricting submitted to Daily Freeman, Greene County, New York, February 3, 2003
Locked up, then counted out: Prisoners and the census, published in the Winter 2002-2003 issue of Fortune News.
Census Quirk Sustains New York’s Love Affair with Prisons published in the August 2002 issue of the Albany NY’s Center for Law and Justice newsletter.
Testimony before the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, March 14, 2002. Prepared testimony: in HTML or PDF format. Or read the Transcript

Patting down the data on racial profiling in New York City, by Peter Wagner, Prison Law Blog, May 10, 2012
Supply-side murder control?, by Peter Wagner, Prison Law Blog, April 12, 2020
Trayvon Martin, fear of crime and mass incarceration, March 30, 2012
Facts about crime [PDF] 1 page factsheet written with the Arizona American Friends Service Committee

Memo to Ohio’s Joint Agency Rule Review Committee on proposed changes to Ohio’s inmate rules of conduct, January 6, 2004.
Comments on proposed changes to Ohio’s inmate rules of conduct submitted to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on November 24, 2003

Imprisoned in Low Wages: Limited access to education for people in prison leads to economic exclusion, by Will Goldberg, Dollars & Sense July/August 2007

“Do no harm” or “Do no expense”? Ohio’s prisoners are dying from inadequate medical care, November, 2003
International Law and Prisoner Health November, 2003

Smart on crime, letter to the editor, from Peter Wagner, Boston Herald, Feb 4, 2011
School Zone Laws Don’t Work, by Peter Wagner (letter), Valley Advocate, March 12, 2009.
PRRAC Researcher Report: Sentencing Enhancement Zones Fail to Protect Children, by Aleks Kajstura & Peter Wagner Poverty & Race November/December 2008.

Affidavit of Peter Wagner, August 14, 2006 in opposition to a Revere, MA city ordinance that would banish people classified as level 3 sex offenders from the city.