HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Book chapters by PPI staff:
Phantom Constituents in the 2012 Election, by Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala in Atlas of the 2012 Elections, edited by J. Clark Archer, Robert H. Watrel, Fiona Davidson, Erin H. Fouberg, Kenneth C. Martis, Richard L. Morrill, Fred M. Shelley, Gerald R. Webster (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) 
Prisons, Politics and the Census, by Gary Hunter and Peter Wagner in Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration, edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright (The New Press, 2008)
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U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2004 (map) by Rose Heyer in Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, edited by Joy James (Duke University Press, 2007).
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Skewing Democracy: Where the Census Counts Prisoners, by Peter Wagner in
Poverty & Race in America: The Emerging Agenda, edited by Chester Hartman (Lexington Books, 2006).
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All profit, no risk
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Compare your state's use of the prison to the world at large
Criminal justice policy in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.
Prison Gerrymandering Project
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.