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Jail and the Census: A Change That Counts Easthampton's Prison Policy Initiative scores a victory for fair political representation.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jail and the Census: A Change That Counts Easthampton's Prison Policy Initiative scores a victory for fair political representation. Thursday, April 08, 2010 By Maureen Turner Valley Advocate Peter Wagner knows firsthand just how hard it is to get people excited about a topic as seemingly dry and technical as the U.S. Census. As the executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research organization in Easthampton, Wagner has spent years trying to get lawmakers and others in positions of influence to pay attention to?and then push to change?one aspect of the complex process by which the Census Bureau counts U.S. residents. Wagner's focus: how the Census counts prisoners, a topic he's been studying since his days as a law student at Western New England College...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).