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National Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Justice Mapping Center launched the National Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections?an online tool that shows a neighborhood-level view of where prisoners, probationers, and parolees are from and where corrections spending is highest. The atlas serves as an tool for policymakers, the media, researchers, and members of the public looking for neighborhood-specific criminal justice data. Drilling down to single ZIP codes, users can learn the number of people in prison, the number released from prison each year, the number on probation or parole, what share of the state's total population this data represent, and the total dollar amount spent on corrections. The atlas highlights the concentration of incarceration rates in disadvantaged communities across the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).