prisons
By woodstocklibrary on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 - 5:24 pm
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Apr. 3, 2011 - 9:55 pm
Detail of an interactive map from the New York Times, showing change of population between the 2000 and 2010 Census. According to the Census Bureau, a census tract including most of Saugerties (the darker brown area at center) lost 13.7 percent of its... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:11 pm
Great piece in the Times Herald-Record today on the debate over how New York State should count prisoners. Currently, they're counted where they're imprisoned, not where they're originally from, a practice that artificially inflates upstate districts with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 - 2:27 pm
The Census Bureau recently announced that they would start identifying census blocks that contain prisons. It's a move hailed by advocacy group Prisoners of the Census, which calls it a first step toward ending "prison gerrymandering."
Where prisoners get... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 - 5:22 pm
Recipe for New York State politics:
1. Take a rural county where almost a fifth of residents are under the poverty line.
2. Extract from it the nation's second-highest tax burden, preferably with a citrus reamer.
3. Stuff with massive prisons. Re-inject... Read more
