Too big to ignore:
How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000
By Rose Heyer and Peter Wagner
Prison Policy Initiative
April 2004
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Acknowledgements
This research was supported by a grant from the Soros Justice Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute.
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