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- November 17, 2009: Peter Wagner is quoted in Pennsylvania inmates prepare to ship out in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pennsylvania's failed parole policies have led to an overcrowding crisis that states with better policies will be profiting from.
- November 03, 2009: Joyce Russell reports for Iowa Public Radio on the end of prison-based gerrymandering in Anamosa, where the first election without a district that is almost entirely prisoners is taking place. Listen: m3u mp3. Peter Wagner is interviewed.
- October 20, 2009: Writing in the Watertown Daily Times, Daniel Jenkins calls for the Census Bureau to report prison populations separately so that counties like Franklin County, NY, can continue to draw districts without regard to the prison populations: Census must take prisoners into account.
- October 09, 2009: Max Davies cites our census research in a UW-Oshkosh Advance-Titan editorial: U.S., Wisconsin fast becoming a nation of prisoners.
- October 08, 2009: Maureen Turner writes about our new report released today, Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Massachusetts in an excellent story in the Valley Advocate: The Prison Town Advantage: Inmates who can't vote nevertheless add to the power of the politicians who don't represent them.
- September 23, 2009: USA Today cites PPI and our work against prison-based gerrymandering in a discussion of major controversies in the upcoming 2010 Census.
- September 23, 2009: Timbuk3 cites our prison-based gerrymandering research in A Captive Constituency.
- September 22, 2009: Wired Magazine picks PPI Advisory Board member Nils Christie for their October feature: The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World. Read the article: Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons.
- September 20, 2009: Michael Overall in the Tulsa World writes Prisons can inflate districts' influence about our newest report Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Oklahoma.
- September 18, 2009: Glen Ford has a radio commentary on Black Agenda Report that addresses prison-based gerrymandering and the 3/5ths clause of the constitution that allowed Southern Whites to cast pro-slavery votes on "behalf" of enslaved Blacks. See The Stolen Count: Prison Inmates and the Census.
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