by Peter Wagner, February 26, 2009
Andrew Beveridge includes the Census Bureau’s prison miscount on his list of big issues for the 2010 Census and cites our advocacy in his article New York and the Fight Over the 2010 Census in the Gotham Gazette.
by Peter Wagner, February 25, 2009
Maureen Turner covers our sentencing enhancement zone reports Geography of Punishment and Reaching Too Far on the cover of this week’s Valley Advocate: Urban Penalty: Do drug-free school zones unfairly target cities and people of color?
by Peter Wagner, February 19, 2009
St. John Barned-Smith writes about our new report Reaching too Far, Coming up Short: How Large Sentencing-Enhancement Zones Miss the Mark in the Bay State Banner: Mass. sentencing laws not doing the job.
by Peter Wagner, February 11, 2009
Chris Faraone writes about our new report Reaching too Far, Coming up Short: How Large Sentencing-Enhancement Zones Miss the Mark in the Boston Phoenix: You’re Probably in a Drug-Free School Zone Right Now: For all the good it does.
by Peter Wagner, February 6, 2009
Brent Staples cites our research and calls on the Census Bureau to stop fueling prison-based gerrymandering in a post on the New York Times editorial writers’ blog: The Census: Phantom Constituents.
by Peter Wagner, February 6, 2009
Matt Kelley features our map of Hampden County, MA sentencing enhancement zones as the Monday map on Change.org. The post goes on to talk about our new report Reaching too far, coming up short: How large sentencing enhancement zones miss the mark.
by Peter Wagner, February 6, 2009
We’ve released our newest report about Massachusetts’ sentencing enhancement zone law: Reaching too far, coming up short: How large sentencing enhancement zones miss the mark.
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