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Added Delaware prison-based gerrymandering bill signed to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Escambia County, Alabama, avoids prison-based gerrymandering to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

The legal resource database was updated with new listings for Arizona and South Carolina.

Added Organizing to end prison-based gerrymandering in Rhode Island to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Where should inmates be counted for redistricting? to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

The legal resource database was updated with new listings for Alabama, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, for all states, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and West Virginia.

The legal resource database was updated with new listings for Arizona, Louisiana, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Added "An End to Prison Gerrymandering" to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Jefferson, St. Lawrence counties to see benefits from new prison census rules in New York to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added How much money is New York City going to gain from new law counting prisoners at home? to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Even small prisons can mean a big problem for democracy to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Rhode Island legislator boasts of prison-based gerrymandering to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Added Census Data May Be a Big Concern for Georgia County Commissioners to the Prisoners of the Census Blog.

Peter Wagner is quoted in the Patriot Ledger regarding Mass.'s plan to bill prison inmates for room and board. Because most people in prison are poor, this counter-productive policy "is like spending money to squeeze blood from a stone."

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.

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.