by Peter Wagner, December 11, 2008
PPI board member Eric Lotke writes about how the new federal leadership can consciously direct resources to break the link between prisons and dependent rural economies in Good Building, Bad Building on the Campaign for America’s Future blog.
by Peter Wagner, December 9, 2008
Marie Gottschalk discusses our research and organizing to end the Census Bureau’s prison miscount in her article The World’s Warden: Crime, Punishment, and Politics in the United States in the Fall issue of Dissent Magazine.
by Peter Wagner, December 9, 2008
Matt Kelley discusses Rose Heyer’s map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 as the Monday Map on the Change.org Criminal Justice blog.
by Peter Wagner, November 22, 2008
Julia at FireDogLake cites our research on Anamosa, Iowa and our Too Big To Ignore report in her post Who profits from private prisons?. Main St. USA also runs with the story.
by Peter Wagner, November 12, 2008
Today’s New York Times editorial page cites our report Too Big to Ignore: How Counting People in Prisons Distorted Census 2000 and calls on state and local legislators to correct the Census Bureau’s prison miscount prior to redistricting.
by Peter Wagner, October 28, 2008
Matt Kelley discusses Rose Heyer’s map 21 Counties where 21% are in prison from our Too Big to Ignore report in his entry about the Times coverage of Anamosa, Iowa on the Change.org Criminal Justice blog.
by Peter Wagner, October 26, 2008
The New York Times‘ coverage of how the Census Bureau’s prison miscount harms rural voters is getting a lot of play in blogs, including on Talkleft, Legal Ruralism, Data Detectives, and Geography101 plus a followup on Geography 101.
by Peter Wagner, October 24, 2008
Sam Roberts writes about Anamosa Iowa and the city district that is 96% prisoners in the New York Times: Census Bureau’s Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Districts
by Peter Wagner, October 20, 2008
Families Against Mandatory Minimums discusses our report
“The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children” in the Fall 2008 issue of their newsletter [PDF, p. 9]
by Peter Wagner, October 9, 2008
Nathaniel Hoffman quotes Peter Wagner in this Boise Weekly article about the prison miscount:
Census bungles prison populations.
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