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Nevada
- Report: Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Nevada by Peter Wagner, December 15, 2004
- Executive Summary
- Press release: Census Bureau's method of counting prisoners steals political clout from Las Vegas and Reno
- Factsheet and Recommendations
- Appendix A: Incarcerated populations in Nevada Assembly Districts
- Appendix S: Incarcerated populations in Nevada Senate Districts
- For journalists: 300dpi versions of the maps used in this report suitable for use in your publications [ZIP, 120k]. Other formats and sizes available upon request
Previously published materials from the project that discuss Nevada:
- Too big to ignore: How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000, April 2004 report
- Outdated methodology impairs Census Bureau's count of Black population Fact of the Week, May 3, 2004
- Twenty one counties have twenty one percent of their population in prisons and jails Fact of the Week, April 19, 2004
Coverage
- Census prison count boosts political clout of rural areas, by Kirsten Searer, Las Vegas Sun, December 16, 2004
- Study: Census count of inmates boosts rural Nevada clout. by Associated Press and appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, December 16, 2004
- Quirk in census counts helps rural Nevada, by KRNV TV-4, December 15, 2004
- Census quirk aids rural counties with prisoners, by Brendan Riley, Associated Press, appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle on December 14, 2004; in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on December 17, 2004 and in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza on December 19, 2004
- Something tells us these neighbors exchange something other than recipes, The Hotline, December 17, 2004
