The Geography of Punishment:

How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children

by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner and William Goldberg
July 2008

• Executive Summary
• Press release
• Report
• Sidebar: 1,000 feet is further than you think
• Sidebar: Vermont’s unique sentencing enhancement zone statute emphasizes that the zone laws should be highly specific and only one of many responses to drugs
• Full page interactive version of Figure 5, a map of all zones and the population in Hampden County.
• Appendix A County demographics.
• Appendix B Drug charges in Hampden County courts and in Massachusetts.
• Appendix C Demographic analysis of cities and towns in Hampden County.
• Appendix D Rural/Urban percentages of Hampden County cities and towns.
• Appendix E Demographic analysis of populations living in enhancement zones.
• Appendix F Demographic analysis of the populations living in enhancement zones, by House district.
• Appendix G Demographic analysis of populations living in recommended 100-foot enhancement zones.