Ben Trachtenberg’s winning Bar Association essay
by Peter Wagner, January 28, 2009
Friend of PPI Professor Ben Trachtenberg has won the American Bar Association 2009 Ross Essay Contest for Incarceration Policy Strikes Out.
Corrections.com
by Peter Wagner, January 26, 2009
Ann Coppola profiles our Prisoners of the Census work on Corrections.com in her article Democratic Distortion.
Cited in Georgetown’s The Hoya
by Peter Wagner, January 26, 2009
Tim Swenson cites our The Prison Index book in his The Hoya column Rehab, Not Relapse.
Maine report coverage
by Peter Wagner, January 15, 2009
Shlomit Auciello writes about our Maine report in the Herald Gazette:
Policy group calls RSU 13 apportionment unconstitutional.
New report on prison-based gerrymandering in Maine
by Peter Wagner, January 14, 2009
I’ve added our newest report, Phantom Constituents in Maine’s Regional School Unit 13: How the Census Bureau’s outdated method of counting prisoners harms democracy.
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