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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 25, 2009

article thumbnailMaureen 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?


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 19, 2009

article thumbnailSt. 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.


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 11, 2009

article thumbnail 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.


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

blog post thumbnailBrent 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.


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

thumbnail of our Hampden county-wide full interactive page map of the sentencing enhancement zones in effect in 2008
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.


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.

by Peter Wagner, February 6, 2009

thumbnail of graphic in report 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.


by Peter Wagner, January 28, 2009

Friend of PPI Professor Ben Trachtenberg has won the American Bar Association 2009 Ross Essay Contest for Incarceration Policy Strikes Out.


by Peter Wagner, January 26, 2009

Ann Coppola profiles our Prisoners of the Census work on Corrections.com in her article Democratic Distortion.


by Peter Wagner, January 26, 2009

Tim Swenson cites our The Prison Index book in his The Hoya column Rehab, Not Relapse.


by Peter Wagner, January 15, 2009

Shlomit Auciello writes about our Maine report in the Herald Gazette:
Policy group calls RSU 13 apportionment unconstitutional.



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