by Peter Wagner, October 24, 2008
Sam Roberts writes about Anamosa Iowa and the city district that is 96% prisoners in the New York Times: Census Bureau’s Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Districts
by Peter Wagner, October 20, 2008
Families Against Mandatory Minimums discusses our report
“The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children” in the Fall 2008 issue of their newsletter [PDF, p. 9]
by Peter Wagner, October 9, 2008
Nathaniel Hoffman quotes Peter Wagner in this Boise Weekly article about the prison miscount:
Census bungles prison populations.
by Peter Wagner, September 29, 2008
We’ve added our newest census report Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Wisconsin to the Prisoners of the Census site.
by Peter Wagner, September 28, 2008
The Smith College Sophian previews Peter Wagner’s Tuesday talk in Expert on Voting Rights to Speak at Smith.
by Peter Wagner, September 12, 2008
Brandon White writes about the Census Bureau’s prison miscount in The 5/3 Compromise on The SuperSpade.
by Peter Wagner, July 26, 2008
Today we published our newest report: The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children. Also see Jo-Ann Moriarty’s coverage in Springfield’s The Republican: Drug free zones facing review.
by Peter Wagner, June 2, 2008
Aubrey Fox cites the impact of the prison miscount on the political process when he asks Can New York Break Its Incarceration Habit? in the Gotham Gazette.
by Peter Wagner, April 7, 2008
Elizabeth Tuttle writing in the Smith College Sophian covers Peter Wagner’s recent lecture:
Prison Reform Lecture Series Brought to Smith
by Peter Wagner, January 8, 2008
TomPaine.com has published Prisons Warp the Vote by PPI law clerk Brett Blank. The piece traces the pre-Reynolds history of redistricting in New Hampshire — which was based on wealth — and juxtaposes that against the prisoner miscount, where prisons are the only economic interest that gets a boost from the decennial census.
Resources, tips, and best practices to help advocates working to end mass incarceration.
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
The U.S. incarcerates nearly 2 million people. Where are they locked up and why? Read our report.
