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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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Too Big To Ignore interactive tables

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County State Percent of county Census population in prison Percent of county Census Black population in prison Percent of county Census Latino population in prison
Brazos
(more info available)		 Texas 1.20% 4.23% 1.76%
Brewster Texas 0.45% 0.00% 0.78%
Briscoe Texas 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Brooks Texas 0.11% 0.00% 0.12%
Brown
(more info available)		 Texas 1.53% 10.74% 2.12%
Burleson Texas 0.22% 0.85% 0.08%
Burnet
(more info available)		 Texas 1.53% 29.48% 2.46%
Caldwell
(more info available)		 Texas 3.55% 17.04% 2.47%
Calhoun Texas 0.17% 0.37% 0.25%
Callahan Texas 0.08% 3.45% 0.00%
Cameron Texas 0.38% 1.36% 0.41%
Camp Texas 0.21% 0.54% 0.06%
Carson Texas 0.28% 7.89% 0.66%
Cass Texas 0.23% 0.52% 0.00%
Castro Texas 0.13% 0.53% 0.19%
Chambers Texas 0.40% 1.65% 0.53%
Cherokee
(more info available)		 Texas 3.13% 11.13% 3.24%
Childress
(more info available)		 Texas 21.70% 69.62% 31.58%
Clay Texas 0.23% 4.35% 0.25%
Cochran Texas 0.11% 0.59% 0.18%

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