by Peter Wagner, June 29, 2009
The New York Times again mentions the importance of where people in prison are counted in the 2010 Census to the political future of the New York State: Democratic Lock Seen on 2013 Albany Senate
by Peter Wagner, June 27, 2009
Professor Douglas A. Berman mentions our new Pennsylvania report on his Sentencing Law & Policy blog.
by Peter Wagner, June 27, 2009
Amaris Elliott-Engel writes an excellent story Report: Census Prisoner Count Dilutes Urban Political Clout in the The Legal Intelligencer about our new report on prison-based gerrymandering in Pennsylvania.
by Peter Wagner, June 27, 2009
We just released our newest report on the Census Bureau’s prison count and prison-based gerrymandering:
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Pennsylvania
by Peter Wagner, June 26, 2009
We’ve released a report calling for Pennsylvania to reject the Census Bureau’s flawed prison counts and to end prison-based gerrymandering: Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Pennsylvania.
by Peter Wagner, June 12, 2009
The Prison Policy Initiative and Demos have written to the Maine Department of Education Commissioner asking her to declare a school board apportionment based on prison populations in violation of the principles of one person one vote. [PDF]
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.