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• 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• Outdated methodology impairs Census Bureau's count of Black population Fact of the Week, May 3, 2004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

Prisoners of the Census is a project of the Prison Policy Initiative.
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