Articles by PPI staff:

Census

• Census Bureau Contributes to Prison-based Gerrymandering, by Leah Sakala, Race, Poverty and the Environment Vol. 18 No. 2, Urban Habitat, December 2011
• Diluting democracy: Census quirk fuels prison expansion, [PDF], 1 page factsheet, April 2004
• Testimony before the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, March 14, 2002. Prepared testimony: in HTML or PDF format. Or read the Transcript

Crime

• Facts about crime [PDF] 1 page factsheet written with the Arizona American Friends Service Committee, 2004

Death Penalty

• Resolution supporting a Moratorium on the Death Penalty

Disciplinary hearings

• Memo to Ohio’s Joint Agency Rule Review Committee on proposed changes to Ohio’s inmate rules of conduct, January 6, 2004.
• Comments on proposed changes to Ohio’s inmate rules of conduct submitted to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on November 24, 2003

News

• Massachusetts Disenfranchises its Prisoners November 2000, written for Mass Dissent

Racial disparities

• Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment, July, 2012
• Patting down the data on racial profiling in New York City, May 2012
• Racial Disparities in North Carolina prisons
• Ohio’s priorities? Graphs about racial disparities in incarceration and how Ohio spends its limited tax dollars.

Sentencing enhancement zones

• Smart on crime, letter to the editor, from Peter Wagner, Boston Herald, Feb 4, 2011
• School Zone Laws Don’t Work, by Peter Wagner (letter), Valley Advocate, March 12, 2009.