Source: Office of the Ohio Public Defender, Number of Death Row Residents Per County, January 2004. (Includes 2 death sentences for James Conway in Franklin County.) (Map: Peter Wagner, 2004)
Map is a part of the Prison Policy Initiative Atlas.
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What's new:
- May 14, 2008: The legal resource database was updated with new listings for Indiana, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
- April 7, 2008: Elizabeth Tuttle writing in the Smith College Sophian covers Peter Wagner's recent lecture: Prison Reform Lecture Series Brought to Smith
- March 23, 2008: The research database was updated with 2 new reports:
- Report to U.S. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that U.S. Census practices dilute votes of minority populationson, by Demos and Prison Policy Initiative.
- Phantom Constituents in Tennessee's Boards of County Commissioners by Prison Policy Initiative; Peter Wagner and JooHye DellaRocco.
- January 8, 2008: TomPaine.com has published Prisons Warp the Vote by PPI law clerk Brett Blank. The piece traces the pre-Reynolds history of redistricting in New Hampshire -- which was based on wealth -- and juxtaposes that against the prisoner miscount, where prisons are the only economic interest that gets a boost from the decennial census.
- December 13, 2007: Added International Committee Urged to Scrutinize U.S. Census Practices That Dilute Vote of Minority Populations to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.
- October 30, 2007: Added Budget battles endanger prison count to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.
- October 24, 2007: Added Census Bureau's Prisoner Count Hurts Ohio Democracy to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.
- October 18, 2007: Added Senator Schneiderman, the Prison Policy Initiative and Other Elected Officials and Advocates Call on Census to Count Prisoners in Their Home Communities to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.
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