Please join us at a wine and cheese reception for the Prison Policy Initiative
with a presentation by Prison Policy Initiative director
Peter Wagner
and remarks by special guest
State Senator Eric Schneiderman
Saturday, May 10, 2008
4:30 - 6:30 pm
on the roofdeck at the home of
Annette and Cal Johnson
145 Nassau St. Apt 3D
New York, NY
Closest subway stops:
4/5/6: City Hall/Brooklyn Bridge,
A/E/C: Chambers Street, 2/3: Park Place
Space is limited. Please RSVP to or 917/838-9672
All contributions are tax deductible, and should be made payable to the Prison Policy Initiative, PO Box 127, Northampton MA 01061. Contributions via credit card may be made on the Prison Policy Initiative donate page.
Host Committee
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Susan Anthony
Andrew Beveridge Dick Dadey Citizens Against Recidivism, Inc. Citizens Union Jennifer and Robert Code Drug Policy Alliance Richard Emery Barbara Fedders Mary-Elizabeth Fitzgerald Deborah Goldberg Joseph “Jazz” Hayden Michael Herz Laleh Ispahani Annette & Cal Johnson Barbara Leiterman Stephanie Low |
Jeff Manza
Josephine McFadden Chris Muller Karen Murtagh-Monks Cheri O’Donoghue David Pepyne Stanley Richards Meghan Rudy Sen. Eric T. Schneiderman Frederick A. O. Schwarz Katherine Sorel Erik Stowers Jessica Stults Angela Wessels Jeff Wice Rebecca Young |
- Find out how U.S. Census rules require counting prisoners as if they choose to live in prisons.
- Learn how this practice — combined with record levels of incarceration — dilutes minority voting power and swells the legislative clout of prison-expansion proponents.
- And hear what one organization is doing to change this distortion of the democratic process.
Praise for the Prison Policy Initiative and its reports:
“An eye-opening analysis by Prison Policy Initiative’s Peter Wagner found seven upstate New York Senate districts that meet minimal population requirements only because prison inmates are included in the count.”
—Brent Staples, “Why Some Politicians Need Their Prisons to Stay Full,” The New York Times, Dec 27, 2004
“Wagner operates a website, www.prisonersofthecensus.org, that is a treasure trove of information about the interaction of incarceration and political representation.”
—Convictions and Doubts: Retribution, Representation, and the Debate over Felon Disenfranchisement, Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Associate Dean for Research and Academics at Stanford Law School.
“Without The Prison Index, I could not have written my second or third book. This clearly organized and comprehensive volume is the best single reference work available to writers and researchers in the field of corrections.”
—Jens Soering, author of The Way of the Prisoner, An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay On Prison Reform from an Insider’s Perspective, and The Convict Christ.
Prison Policy Initiative
P.O. Box 127
Northampton, MA 01061
www.prisonpolicy.org
www.prisonersofthecensus.org