Boston Globe profiles Prisoners of the Census project
by Peter Wagner, September 27, 2004
Drake Bennett has written an excellent profile of the Census issue in the Boston Sunday Globe Ideas section. The piece ties together the harm to democracy in both urban and rural communities from the Census Bureau’s practice of counting prisoners as residents of the prison town and makes all of the necessary connections to larger issues.
As the Boston Globe article may disappear over time, I’ve permanently archived it on the Prison Policy Initiative website: