Hey, That’s my prisoner!
by Peter Wagner, February 26, 2007
Eileen Markey writes about U.S. Census policy, New York State’s democracy and the need for interim solutions in City Limits magazine: Hey, that’s my prisoner: Pols want the numbers.
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Prisoners of the Census Bureau
by Peter Wagner, February 19, 2007
Professor Marie Gottschalk cites our research in a column in today’s Los Angeles Times Prisoners of the Census Bureau: How and where the U.S. counts inmates has huge, and unsettling, consequences.
ElDiario
El Diario/La Prensa (New York) cites our research in an editorial "Reversing the Prison Trend" in English and Spanish.
by Peter Wagner, February 15, 2007
El Diario/La Prensa (New York) cites our research in an editorial Reversing the Prison Trend in English and Spanish.
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50 state incarceration profiles
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The rapid & unregulated growth of e-messaging in prisons
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Incarceration and supervision by states
Probation and parole are the leading forms of mass punishment in America.
Prison Gerrymandering Project
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.