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What's new:

• August 8, 2008: The research database was updated with 4 new reports:
  • The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation Incarceration Rates among Native and Foreign-Born Men (Spring 2007), by Immigration Policy Center.
  • Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities, 2005-06 by Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  • Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007 by Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  • The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children, by Prison Policy Initiative.
• August 1, 2008: The legal resource database was updated with a new listing for Vermont.
• 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.
• June 25, 2008: Added Census Bureau should use forms, not administrative records, to count people in prison to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.
• 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.
• May 28, 2008: Added Legislators ask Census Bureau to change prison count to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.
• 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.