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IN: OUTTA HERE Community effort needed to reverse trend in under-18 population

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The first articles in this Terre Haute Indiana paper about the Census results were celebratory until Peter Wagner of the Prison Policy Initiative pointed out that the population increase was the prison and that the apparent population growth was masking a bigger problem from an economic development perspective. This column appeared in the Feb. 13 edition of the paper. http://tribstar.com/opinion/x1248735281/OUTTA-HERE February 13, 2011 OUTTA HERE Community effort needed to reverse trend in under-18 population Mark BennettSpecial to the Tribune-Star TERRE HAUTE ? Vigo County needs an exodus czar. Not the biblical Exodus. Instead, this exodus (lower-case e) refers to the departure of young people from this community, as revealed in the newly released 2010 Census figures...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 13, 2011 (boomark / email).