by Leah Sakala, September 23, 2011
PPI supports a common-sense revision to the short-sighted Massachusetts school zone drug penalty law. This change would allow the law to more effectively protect children without disproportionately punishing urban communities.
by Peter Wagner, February 14, 2011
We added Maureen Turner’s Valley Advocate article Rethinking Drug-Free School Zones: Gov. Patrick proposes changing a policy critics say is unfair and ineffective to our PPI in the News page and to the page about our sentencing enhancement zone work.
by Peter Wagner, January 18, 2011
Eric Weld has an article about Peter Wagner’s course at Smith College: Interterm Course Focuses on U.S. Prison System in the Gate.
by Peter Wagner, May 9, 2010
Peter Wagner is quoted in the Patriot Ledger regarding Mass.’s plan to bill prison inmates for room and board. Because most people in prison are poor, this counter-productive policy “is like spending money to squeeze blood from a stone.”
by Peter Wagner, February 17, 2010
Artist Paul Rucker’s new installation, Proliferation, inspired by the map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 by PPI’s Rose Heyer was just reviewed in CityArts (link no longer available).
by Peter Wagner, February 14, 2010
Added Most upstate counties with prisons agree: A prison cell is not a residence [PDF] to the New York organizing page.
by Peter Wagner, January 19, 2010
We added links to recent radio interviews on WBAI, The Take Away and shows to our In the News page.
by Peter Wagner, January 15, 2010
Matt Kelley cites PPI’s research on sentencing enhancement zones in a post saluting New Jersey’s first-in-the-nation reform of these short-sighted laws.
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.
States fall far short of their duty to meet the health needs of incarcerated people.
The bail industry exploits cracks and loopholes in the legal system to avoid accountability, while growing its profits.
Criminal justice policy in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.
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