Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children

This large scrolling map of Hampden County shows how sentencing enhancement zones (in yellow) disproportionately affect urban, Black and Latino populations. The Black and Latino populations are represented with red dots, and the White population with blue dots. The Black and Latino populations are heavily concentrated in urban areas, where the majority of the population lives in school zones. You can quickly navigate to each city or town with the links at left. For more information, see the full Prison Policy Initiative report, The Geography of Punishment: How Huge Sentencing Enhancement Zones Harm Communities, Fail to Protect Children by Aleks Kajstura, Peter Wagner and William Goldberg, July 2008 .

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This large scrolling map of Hampden County shows how sentencing enhancement zones disproportionately affect urban, Black and Latino populations. The Black and Latino populations are represented with red dots, and the White population with blue dots. The Black and Latino populations are heavily concentrated in urban areas, where the majority of the population lives in school zones.