Major reports
Please Deposit All of Your Money:
Kickbacks, Rates, and Hidden Fees in the Jail Phone Industry, by Drew Kukorowski, Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala, May 8, 2013-
Imported "Constituents": Incarcerated People And Political Clout In Connecticut, by Peter Wagner. Foreword by Bilal Dabir Sekou, PhD, and Cheri Quickmire, April 17, 2013. 
Return to Sender: Postcard-only Mail Policies in Jail, by Leah Sakala, February 7, 2013
With our partner organization SumOfUs, we submitted a petition to the FCC signed by 36,690 people around the country calling for federal regulation of predatory prison telephone rates, November 15, 2012 
The Price To Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization In The Prison Phone Industry, by Drew Kukorowski, September 11, 2012
One Last Chance to Avoid Prison-Based Gerrymandering in Kansas, by Peter Wagner and Brenda Wright, Prison Policy Initiative and Dēmos, May 28, 2012.
Breaking the Census: Redistricting in an Era of Mass Incarceration
by Peter Wagner
William Mitchell Law Review, Volume 38, Number 4, Spring 2012
Primer for reporters on county or municipal redistricting & prison-based gerrymandering, by Peter Wagner, March 2011
Preventing Prison-Based Gerrymandering in Redistricting: What to Watch For, by Peter Wagner and Brenda Wright, Prison Policy Initiative and Demos, February 23, 2011
[En Español: Prevenir la manipulación de los límites de los distritos electorales sobre la base de la población reclusa: qué es lo que hay que evitar]
Importing Constituents: Incarcerated People and Political Clout in California, by Aleks Kajstura and Peter Wagner, March 2010
Importing Constituents: Incarcerated People and Political Clout in Connecticut, by Peter Wagner and Christian de Ocejo, March 2010
Fixing prison-based gerrymandering after the 2010 Census: A 50 state guide, by Peter Wagner, Aleks Kajstura, Elena Lavarreda, Christian de Ocejo, and Sheila Vennell O'Rourke, March 2010 
Importing Constituents: Incarcerated People and Political Clout in Maryland, by Peter Wagner and Olivia Cummings, March 4, 2010-
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Illinois by Brett Blank and Peter Wagner
February 2010 - Importing Constituents:
Prisoners and Political Clout in Massachusetts
by Elena Lavarreda, Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer
October 6, 2009 - Importing Constituents:
Prisoners and Political Clout in Oklahoma
by Peter Wagner and Elena Lavarreda
September 21, 2009 
Importing Constituents:
Prisoners and Political Clout in Pennsylvania
by Peter Wagner and Elena Lavarreda
June 26, 2009-
Reaching too far, coming up short: How large sentencing enhancement zones
miss the mark
by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala
January, 2009 - Phantom Constituents in Maine’s Regional School Unit 13: How the Census Bureau’s outdated method of counting prisoners harms democracy.
by Peter Wagner, January 15, 2009
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The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children
by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner and William Goldberg, July 2008
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Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Wisconsin
By John Hejduk and Peter Wagner
March, 2008 -
Phantom Constituents in Tennessee’s Boards of County Commissioners
By Peter Wagner and JooHye DellaRocco
February 21, 2008 -
Report to U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that U.S. Census practices dilute votes of minority populations
by Demos and Prison Policy Initiative, December 2007
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Phantom constituents in the Empire State: How outdated Census Bureau methodology burdens New York counties
By Peter Wagner, Meghan Rudy, Ellie Happel and Will Goldberg
July 18, 2007 - Democracy Toolkit Interactive tools to help rural citizens determine if prison populations in legislative districts are diluting their right to equal representation
by Peter Wagner, April 2007
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Do you know where the children are?A Report of Massachusetts Youth Unlawfully Held Without Bail, by Barbara Fedders (Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School and Prison Policy Initiative Board Member) and Barbara Kaban (Children’s Law Center), September 15, 2006
- Why the Census Bureau can and must start collecting the home addresses of incarcerated people
Submitted by Peter Wagner, Eric Lotke and Andrew Beveridge
to the U.S. Census Bureau on February 10, 2006
in advance of the Bureau’s report to the Appropriations Committee on using prisoners’ homes of record in the Census 
Prisoners of the Census: Electoral and Financial Consequences of Counting Prisoners Where They Go, Not Where They Come From [PDF]
by Eric Lotke and Peter Wagner,
Pace Law Review Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 2004
Published April 2005
On Behalf Of National Voting Rights Institute And
Prison Policy Initiative, January 28, 2005
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Nevada
by Peter Wagner, December 15, 2004
released by the Prison Policy Initiative
and the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Montana
by Peter Wagner, December 14, 2004
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Texas
by Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer, November 8, 2004
Jim Crow in Massachusetts? Prisoner disenfranchisement
by Peter Wagner, October 31, 2004.
Actual Constituents: Students and Political Clout in New York
by Peter Wagner, October 6, 2004
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Ohio
by Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer, July 7, 2004
Too big to ignore: How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000
by Rose Heyer and Peter Wagner, April 2004
The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry
by Peter Wagner, April 2003
Published by the Prison Policy Initiative
and the Western Prison Project
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in New York
by Peter Wagner, April 22, 2002