The Geography of Punishment:

How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children

by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner, and William Goldberg
Prison Policy Initiative
July 2008
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Appendix F. Demographic analysis of the populations living in enhancement zones, by House district.
	District demographics in Hampden County				Populations in the zones				Percent of population living in a zone
	Population	White	Black	Latino	Total	White	Black	Latino	Total	White	Black	Latino
1st Hampden	19,980	19,274	154	242	3,134	3,017	28	31	15.7%	15.7%	18.1%	12.7%
2nd Hampden	41,286	38,629	664	979	9,871	8,797	303	428	23.9%	22.8%	45.6%	43.7%
3rd Hampden	40,157	38,468	370	701	7,873	7,552	62	141	19.6%	19.6%	16.9%	20.1%
4th Hampden	40,072	36,893	427	2,008	11,697	10,452	134	867	29.2%	28.3%	31.3%	43.2%
5th Hampden	39,838	21,508	1,187	16,485	23,322	9,730	742	12,475	58.5%	45.2%	62.5%	75.7%
6th Hampden	40,846	35,884	969	2,763	13,356	11,702	315	898	32.7%	32.6%	32.5%	32.5%
7th Hampden	29,849	27,198	1,064	1,162	7,061	6,210	254	401	23.7%	22.8%	23.8%	34.5%
8th Hampden	38,016	32,204	1,026	3,987	13,007	10,437	493	1,812	34.2%	32.4%	48.0%	45.5%
9th Hampden	40,859	26,709	5,298	7,927	13,846	9,137	1,514	2,838	33.9%	34.2%	28.6%	35.8%
10th Hampden	37,732	11,108	5,379	19,799	23,148	6,586	3,402	12,257	61.3%	59.3%	63.2%	61.9%
11th Hampden	40,461	11,684	17,675	10,121	25,138	6,223	11,068	7,256	62.1%	53.3%	62.6%	71.7%
12th Hampden	41,642	36,492	2,234	1,882	10,642	9,094	604	609	25.6%	24.9%	27.0%	32.3%
1st Hampshire	654	639	0	5	0	0	0	0	0%	0%	n/a	0%
4th Berkshire	2,948	2,887	16	26	226	220	2	1	7.6%	7.6%	11.3%	3.1%
Hampden County	454,340	339,577	36,463	68,087	162,321	99,155	18,919	40,011	35.7%	29.2%	51.9%	58.8%

1st Hampden:: Palmer, Brimfield, Wales, Holland and parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties.
2nd Hampden:: Monson, Hampden, Longmeadow, and parts of East Longmeadow and Springfield.
3rd Hampden:: Russell, Granville, Southwick and Agawam.
4th Hampden:: Westfield.
5th Hampden:: Holyoke.
6th Hampden:: West Springfield, parts of Chicopee and Springfield.
7th Hampden:: Ludlow, parts of Chicopee and Springfield and Hampshire County.
8th Hampden:: Parts of Chicopee.
9th Hampden:: Parts of Chicopee and Springfield.
10th Hampden:: Parts of Springfield.
11th Hampden:: Parts of Springfield.
12th Hampden:: Parts of East Longmeadow and Springfield.
1st Hampshire:: Montgomery and parts of Hampshire County not included in this analysis.
4th Berkshire:: Blandford, Chester, Tolland and parts of Berkshire County not included in this analysis.

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