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Documentation

Using the Census Bureau's Advance Group Quarters Table, by Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative
Preventing prison-based gerrymandering in redistricting: What to watch for by Peter Wagner and Brenda Wright, Prison Policy Initiative and Demos, February 23, 2011 [En Español]
Democracy Toolkit (training on using our research tools and analyzing the impact of prison-based gerrymandering on local governments.)

Correctional Facility Locator (2010) Annotations and correctional facility counts by block, searchable by county.

Google Earth kml files allow you to view the information available through our Correctional Facility Locator through Google Earth.

National point shapefile with the group quarters (including correctional facilities) populations and subsets of this file for two states:
- For Minnesota: State, federal, private prisons and halfway houses ESRI shapefile Maptitude layer
- For Massachusetts: State, federal prisons and county houses of correction: ESRI shapefile
Our database of annotations of each block that contains a correctional facility and the demographic breakdown of each will be accessible at the URL http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/data/2010blocks/$geoid/ where $geoid is the 15 digit state-county-tract-code of a block with a correctional facility, ie http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/data/2010blocks/361219702001024/
Memo about New and Expanded Federal and State Prisons since 2000
The populations and addresses of all state, federal and local correctional facilities from other sources on the most recent available date to the 2010 Census
A list of all federal halfway houses in March 2010
For jails in Indian Country, see Appendix 1-A in Bureau of Justice Statistics, Jails in Indian Country, 2010

Correctional Facility Locator (2000) Annotations and correctional facility counts by block
Correctional facility census counts, in ESRI shapefile, Maptitude, Google Earth (kml) and text format prepared by Bill Cooper. (Scroll down the page to see the downloads link.)
Count Question Resolution Program 2000 results in shapefile format. Download a zipfile of the data and layer file, or a layer package.