Prison Policy Initiative press releases
- Report says sentencing enhancement zones fail to protect children, increase racial disparities in incarceration July 26, 2008
- Prisoners in the Census skew county government in Tennessee February 20, 2008
- International committee urged to scrutinize U.S. Census practices that dilutes vote of minority populations December 13, 2007
- Senator Schneiderman, the Prison Policy Initiative and Other Elected Officials and Advocates Call on Census to Count Prisoners in Their Home Communities Announce National Letter-Writing Campaign to Urge Policy Change, October 18, 2007
- Prisoners in the Census skew county government in New York July 18, 2007
- New article from Northwestern University Law School demonstrates viability of state-based solution to federal failures in decennial census January 3, 2007
- National Academies report calls for Census Bureau to collect alternative addresses for people in prison September 14, 2006
- Better Ballots: 2006 New York Voter Education Guide Launched August 10, 2006
- America's prison explosion exhibited at international map exhibition July 14, 2005
- Census treatment of incarcerated felons unfairly dilutes voting strength of non-prison communities June 22, 2005
- Federal appeals court urged to consider census-based dilution of minority voting strength when weighing legality of prisoner disenfranchisement scheme February 2, 2005
- Census Bureau's method of counting prisoners steals political clout from Las Vegas and Reno December 15, 2004
- Census Bureau policy costs Montana's cities population, legislative clout December 14, 2004
- Census Bureau policy costs Texas' cities population November 8, 2004
- Report highlights racially disparate impact of barring Massachusetts prisoners from voting, October 31, 2004
- Students have right to vote in local elections; New report studies impact of New York students in the Census and redistricting, October 6, 2004
- Census Bureau Policy Costs Ohio's Cities Population; Urban Residents Lose Political Clout in Legislature July 6, 2004
- New study says how the Census counts prisoners frustrates accurate use of data April 13, 2004
- Prisoner census counts skew population and political representation: Impact on communities to be examined at Census Bureau symposium February 28, 2004
- Study Says Prison Populations Skew New York Districts; City loses, rural legislators gain, from new districts April 22, 2002