The Geography of Punishment:

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

by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner and William Goldberg
Prison Policy Initiative
July 2008
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Appendix A. County demographics.
	White	Black	Latino	In poverty	In poverty (under 5 years old)	Without a high school diplomar or GED (25 years or older)
Barnstable County	93.4%	1.7%	1.3%	6.9%	9.2%	8.2%
Berkshire County	94.1%	1.9%	1.7%	9.5%	15.9%	14.9%
Bristol County	89.4%	1.8%	3.6%	10.0%	15.3%	26.8%
Dukes County	90.0%	2.3%	1.0%	7.3%	11.1%	9.6%
Essex County	83.1%	2.0%	11.0%	8.9%	12.6%	15.4%
Franklin County	94.4%	0.8%	2.0%	9.4%	12.8%	12.0%
Hampden County	74.4%	7.5%	15.2%	14.7%	26.8%	20.8%
Hampshire County	89.5%	1.8%	3.4%	9.4%	9.7%	10.6%
Middlesex County	83.6%	3.2%	4.6%	6.5%	6.9%	11.5%
Nantucket County	86.9%	8.2%	2.2%	7.5%	2.4%	8.4%
Norfolk County	87.9%	3.1%	1.8%	4.6%	4.7%	8.7%
Plymouth County	87.6%	4.3%	2.4%	6.6%	8.9%	12.4%
Suffolk County	52.1%	20.8%	15.5%	19.0%	24.5%	21.9%
Worcester County	86.5%	2.4%	6.8%	9.2%	12.3%	16.5%
Massachusetts	81.9%	5.0%	6.8%	9.3%	12.4%	15.2%

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