Articles by PPI staff:
Book reviews
- An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay On Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective book review, April 2005
- Crime Control as Industry book review, May 2002
Census
- Prisons Warp the Vote, by Brett Blank, TomPaine.com, January 8, 2008
- Census' cell count steals voting power by Emily Bazelon and Peter Wagner, Newsday, September 8, 2004
- Prisoners of the Census.org unveiled June 30, 2003 and updated at least weekly with factsheets, maps and a more than 100 essays.
- Diluting democracy: Census quirk fuels prison expansion, [PDF], 1 page factsheet, April 2004
- Funds don't belong in Washington Park printed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 24, 2003
- Exclude prisoners from local redistricting submitted to Daily Freeman, Greene County, New York, February 3, 2003
- Locked up, then counted out: Prisoners and the census, published in the Winter 2002-2003 issue of Fortune News.
- Census Quirk Sustains New York’s Love Affair with Prisons published in the August 2002 issue of the Albany NY's Center for Law and Justice newsletter.
- Testimony before the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, March 14, 2002. Prepared testimony: in HTML or PDF format. Or read the Transcript
Crime
- Facts about crime [PDF] 1 page factsheet written with the Arizona American Friends Service Committee
Death Penalty
Disciplinary hearings
- Memo to Ohio's Joint Agency Rule Review Committee on proposed changes to Ohio's inmate rules of conduct, January 6, 2004.
- Comments on proposed changes to Ohio's inmate rules of conduct submitted to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on November 24, 2003
Economics
- Imprisoned in Low Wages: Limited access to education for people in prison leads to economic exclusion, by Will Goldberg, Dollars & Sense July/August 2007
Graphs and maps
- All the graphs and charts produced by the Prison Policy Initiative
- All the maps produced by the Prison Policy Initiative
Health care
- "Do no harm" or "Do no expense"? Ohio's prisoners are dying from inadequate medical care, November, 2003
- International Law and Prisoner Health November, 2003
News
- Letter to the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission sent November 3, 2003
- Johnny Cash Obituary February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003
- California's budget secret: Prisoners form core of forest fire fighting army, October 2003
- Massachusetts Disenfranchises its Prisoners November 2000, written for Mass Dissent
- Incarceration is not a solution to mental illness April 2000, written for Mass Dissent
Prison Index factsheets
- Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment 1 [PDF] page factsheet or page with graphs about disparate incarceration rates. (Updated: June 2005)
- Who is at the greatest risk of crime victimization? Who has confidence in the criminal justice system? [PDF], 1 page factsheet, July 2003
- The United States stands alone on high incarceration [PDF], 1 page factsheet, July 2003
- Felon Disenfranchisement: Jim Crow Redux [PDF], 1 page factsheet, April 2003
- Why does prison building continue as crime drops? [PDF], 1 page factsheet, April 2003
Racial disparities
- Racial Disparities in North Carolina prisons
- Ohio's priorities? Graphs about racial disparities in incarceration and how Ohio spends its limited tax dollars.
- Racial disparities call for reassessing crime control policy October 2001, written for Upstate Prison Response
Rural prisons & Prison expansion
- Don't sink more funds into jails for women, Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) April 27, 2006.
- North Carolina prison construction September 2003
- Thirty-Two Years After Attica: Many More Blacks in Prison but not as Guards published on Alternet, September 25, 2003
- Prison Expansion Won't Aid Local Economy submitted to Hartford Courant August 1, 2002
Sex offender exclusion
- Affidavit of Peter Wagner, August 14, 2006 in opposition to a Revere, MA city ordinance that would banish people classified as level 3 sex offenders from the city.