Too big to ignore:
How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000
Rose Heyer and Peter Wagner
Prison Policy Initiative
April 2004
Followup research and articles, often with data tables
- Census data asks: Where are the Hispanic children? But it's the wrong question October 11, 2004
- Outdated methodology impairs Census Bureau's count of Black population May 3, 2004
- Prison expansion made 56 counties with declining populations appear to be growing in Census 2000 April 26, 2004
- Twenty one counties have twenty one percent of their population in prisons and jails April 19, 2004
