by Peter Wagner, May 9, 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.”
by Peter Wagner, 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 (link no longer available).
by Peter Wagner, February 14, 2010
Added Most upstate counties with prisons agree: A prison cell is not a residence [PDF] to the New York organizing page.
by Peter Wagner, January 19, 2010
We added links to recent radio interviews on WBAI, The Take Away and shows to our In the News page.
by Peter Wagner, 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.
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
It can strengthen connections, but instead has been used to sap money from incarcerated people.
Probation and parole are the leading forms of mass punishment in America.
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.