by Peter Wagner, July 23, 2007
The New York Times cited our Phantom Constituents in the Empire State report in today’s editorial Phantom Voters in New York.
by Peter Wagner, July 19, 2007
Our report about how the Census burdens New York counties is receiving a lot of great press. Various versions of an Associated Press article have appeared in the Albany Times Union, the Daily Freeman, the Syracuse Post-Standard and in papers across upstate New York.
by Peter Wagner, July 18, 2007
We released a new report, “Phantom constituents in the Empire State: How outdated Census Bureau methodology burdens New York counties” today.
by Peter Wagner, July 16, 2007
Our long-time GIS Analyst, Rose Heyer, has a two-page color map, “The American Archipelago: U.S. Prison Proliferation 1900-2004 published in a new book Warfare in the American Homeland edited by Joy James. The new map updates her earlier map, U.S. Prison Proliferation 1900-2000.
by Peter Wagner, July 14, 2007
The July/August issue of Dollars & Sense magazine has a new article by PPI Policy Analyst Will Goldberg Imprisoned in Low Wages: Limited access to education for people in prison leads to economic exclusion.
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
It can strengthen connections, but instead has been used to sap money from incarcerated people.
Probation and parole are the leading forms of mass punishment in America.
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.