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Map of downtown Holyoke shows that Blacks and Latinos reside disproportionately within the sentencing enhancement zones.

(Map: Prison Policy Initiative, 2008)

This map originally appeared in The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children.

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