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Added Minnesota Post article on our new report to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Census Bureau counts Minnesota's incarcerated population in the wrong place; access to democracy distorted to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Prison Populations a Big Issue for Census to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Prison-based gerrymandering in Maryland to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Census empowers, does not dictate data use to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Census Bureau Director blogs: "So, How do You Handle Prisons?" to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Times Herald-Record asks: Who gets to count inmates? to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

We'll be doing a National briefing about prison-based gerrymandering by conference call at 11am EST. Join us. More info. March 24, 2010

We'll be doing a briefing about prison-based gerrymandering in New York by conference call at 11am EST. Join us. More info. March 16, 2010

Added Utica NY paper calls on Sen Griffo & Assemblywoman Destito to oppose prison-based gerrymandering to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Minnesota Post on prison-based gerrymandering to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Wagner testimony at Congressional field hearing on Census group quarters count to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Peter Wagner will be speaking about the U.S. Census, mass-incarceration and prison-based gerrymandering at Smith College, Seeyle 206 in Northampton Mass at 6:30pm. April 01, 2010

Artist Paul Rucker's new installation, Proliferation, inspired by the map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 by PPI's Rose Heyer was just reviewed in CityArts.

Added Most upstate counties with prisons agree: A prison cell is not a residence [PDF] to the New York organizing page.

Peter Wagner will be attending the National Redistricting Seminar in Austin, Texas organized by the National Conference of State Legislatures March 25-28, 2010

We added links to recent radio interviews on WBAI, The Take Away and shows to our In the News page.

Matt Kelley cites PPI's research on sentencing enhancement zones in a post saluting New Jersey's first-in-the-nation reform of these short-sighted laws.

The Valley Advocate honors us on a best of 2009 list.

The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network has twice featured our work on their blog in the last week or so. One article by George Pillsbury features our research on Mississippi, and another on our work behind the New York Times' Gerrymandering: Pure and Corrupt editorial.