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Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Wisconsin
By John Hejduk and Peter Wagner
March 2008
- Press release
- Report
- Tables:
- Incarcerated populations in Wisconsin Assembly districts
- Incarcerated populations in Wisconsin Senate districts
- Percent of each Wisconsin county’s census population that is in a state or federal prison
- Incarceration rates for each Wisconsin county (2000)
- Incarcerated populations in Wisconsin county board districts (2000)
- Incarcerated populations in Wisconsin city Aldermanic wards (2000)
Coverage
- Lawmakers debate counting non-voting prisoners in census [RealMedia], by Shawn Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio July 7, 2009
-
Fuzzy Math: Is the Census Bureau creating unfair politics in Wisconsin?, by Evan Solochek, Milwaukee Magazine March 2008
Additional resources:
- The Wisconsin resource page is an actively maintained list of links to fact sheets, news articles, testimony, and other information on the current campaign for change in Wisconsin.
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Meet us
- Feb 18, 2012: Peter Wagner will discuss prison-based gerrymandering on a Race & Voting panel at the RebLaw Conference at 11am at Yale Law School in New Haven CT.
- February 23, 2012: Peter Wagner will speak about disproportionate incarceration and sentencing enhancement zones at the Springfield, Mass. Community Forum Against Three Strikes at the Rebecca Johnson School, 6pm.
- April 26-28, 2012: Peter Wagner will be speaking about prison-based gerrymandering at the A New Vision of Black Freedom: The Manning Marable Memorial Conference at Columbia Univ. in New York City. Exact day/time TBA.
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