Prison Policy Initiative

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Census: where should we count prison inmates?

Global Politics

The census requires counting prisoners in the place where they are incarcerated, not where they originally lived. Here to tell us why that’s a problem is Peter Wagner, executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative.

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