by Peter Wagner, December 31, 2009
The Valley Advocate salutes the Prison Policy Initiative for how far we stretch your generous contributions.
The Valley Advocate honors us on a best of 2009 list.
by Peter Wagner, November 25, 2009
The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network has twice featured our work on their blog in the last week or so. One article by George Pillsbury features our research on Mississippi, and another on our work behind the New York Times‘ Gerrymandering: Pure and Corrupt editorial.
by Peter Wagner, November 17, 2009
Peter Wagner is quoted in Pennsylvania inmates prepare to ship out in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pennsylvania’s failed parole policies have led to an overcrowding crisis that states with better policies will be profiting from.
by Peter Wagner, November 3, 2009
Joyce Russell reports for Iowa Public Radio on the end of prison-based gerrymandering in Anamosa, where the first election without a district that is almost entirely prisoners is taking place. Listen: mp3. Transcript here. Peter Wagner is interviewed.
by Peter Wagner, October 20, 2009
Writing in the Watertown Daily Times, Daniel Jenkins calls for the Census Bureau to report prison populations separately so that counties like Franklin County, NY, can continue to draw districts without regard to the prison populations: Census must take prisoners into account (link no longer available).
by Peter Wagner, October 9, 2009
Max Davies cites our census research in a UW-Oshkosh Advance-Titan editorial: U.S., Wisconsin fast becoming a nation of prisoners.
by Peter Wagner, October 8, 2009
Maureen Turner writes about our new report released today, Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Massachusetts in an excellent story in the Valley Advocate: The Prison Town Advantage: Inmates who can’t vote nevertheless add to the power of the politicians who don’t represent them.
by Peter Wagner, September 23, 2009
USA Today cites PPI and our work against prison-based gerrymandering in a discussion of major controversies in the upcoming 2010 Census.
by Peter Wagner, September 23, 2009
Timbuk3 cites our prison-based gerrymandering research in A Captive Constituency.
by Peter Wagner, September 22, 2009
Wired Magazine picks PPI Advisory Board member Nils Christie for their October feature: The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World. Read the article: Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons.
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.