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- 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.
- December 31, 2009: The Valley Advocate honors us on a best of 2009 list.
- November 25, 2009: The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network has twice featured our work on their blog in the last week or so. One article by George Pillsbury features our research on Mississippi, and another on our work behind the New York Times' Gerrymandering: Pure and Corrupt editorial.
- 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.
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