Articles of analysis

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• Prisoners of the Census: Electoral and Financial Consequences of Counting Prisoners Where They Go, Not Where They Come From [PDF] by Eric Lotke and Peter Wagner, Pace Law Review, Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 2004 (Published April 2005)
• Why Some Politicians Need Their Prisons to Stay Full Editorial Observer Column by Brent Staples, New York Times, December 27, 2004
• Jailhouse Blues New York Times Editorial Board, November 22, 2004
• Where prisoners 'live' is a question of power Counting prisoners as residents of rural counties robs cities of clout, money and services, some say, by Asher Price, Austin American-Statesman, November 8, 2004
• Head count: The Census counts prisoners as residents of the towns where they're incarcerated. One crusading lawyer from Northampton thinks this little clerical matter is a big problem for American democracy, by Drake Bennett, Boston Globe, September 26, 2004
• Census' cell count steals voting power by Emily Bazelon and Peter Wagner, Newsday, September 8, 2004
• Too big to ignore: How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000 by Rose Heyer and Peter Wagner, April 2004
• Counting Matters: Prison inmates, population bases, and "one person, one vote", by Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, 11 Va J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 229 (Winter, 2004)
• Defying one-person, one-vote: Prisoners and the "Usual residence" principle, [PDF] by Rosanna M. Taormina, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Nov 2003. 152 U Pa L. Rev. 431.
• Down for the (Re)count The Census counts prisoners in their cells, not their neighborhoods. Now a move is afoot to change their addresses. By Matthew Schuerman, City Limits, January 2004.
• Locked up, then counted out: Prisoners and the census, by Peter Wagner, Fortune News, Winter 2002-2003
• How the U.S prison system makes minority communities pay, by Zachary Dowdy, Crisis Magazine, July/August 2002
• Minority Prison Inmates Skew Local Populations as States Redistrict by Jonathan Tilove, Newhouse News Service, March 12, 2002
• Building a prison economy in rural America by Tracy Huling in Invisible Punishment. October, 2002.
• Prisoners of the Census - by Tracy Huling. Record numbers of urban people of color are now in prisons in rural areas -- where the census counts them as residents. Result? The prisoners' 'share' of federal funds pegged to population counts will go to their keepers' hometowns.
• Prisons as a Growth Industry in Rural America: An Exploratory Discussion of the Effects on Young African American Men in the Inner Cities, Tracy Huling, consultant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. April, 1999.
• Felon Disenfranchisement: Pennsylvania's Sinister Face of Vote Dilution, by Jon E. Yount.