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What's new:

• 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.
• February 28, 2008: The research database was updated with 2 new reports:
  • One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008, by The Pew Center on the States.
  • Campus Law Enforcement, 2004-05 by Bureau of Justice Statistics.
• February 27, 2008: The research database was updated with 1 new report:
  • Crime, Corrections, and California: What Does Immigration Have to Do with It?, by Public Policy Institute of California.
• 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.