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- January 27, 2012: Friend of Prison Policy Initiative artist Paul Rucker has been awarded a prestigious grant from Creative Capital to make more art about mass incarceration. His 2009 project, Proliferation, was inspired by the map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 by PPI's Rose Heyer. Don't miss the review of Proliferation on CityArts. Congratulations Paul!
- January 17, 2012: At the 1/16 GOP primary debate Juan Williams cited PPI's data in a question he asked about the issue of racial disparities in drug-related arrests and convictions.
- September 23, 2011: PPI supports a common-sense revision to the short-sighted Massachusetts school zone drug penalty law. This change would allow the law to more effectively protect children without disproportionately punishing urban communities.
- February 14, 2011: We added Maureen Turner's Valley Advocate article Rethinking Drug-Free School Zones: Gov. Patrick proposes changing a policy critics say is unfair and ineffective to our PPI in the News page and to the page about our sentencing enhancement zone work.
- January 18, 2011: Eric Weld has an article about Peter Wagner's course at Smith College: Interterm Course Focuses on U.S. Prison System in the Gate.
- May 09, 2010: Peter Wagner is quoted in the Patriot Ledger regarding Mass.'s plan to bill prison inmates for room and board. Because most people in prison are poor, this counter-productive policy "is like spending money to squeeze blood from a stone."
- February 17, 2010: Artist Paul Rucker's new installation, Proliferation, inspired by the map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 by PPI's Rose Heyer was just reviewed in CityArts.
- February 14, 2010: Added Most upstate counties with prisons agree: A prison cell is not a residence [PDF] to the New York organizing page.
- January 19, 2010: We added links to recent radio interviews on WBAI, The Take Away and shows to our In the News page.
- January 15, 2010: Matt Kelley cites PPI's research on sentencing enhancement zones in a post saluting New Jersey's first-in-the-nation reform of these short-sighted laws.
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