Justice Mapping Center

An article in the New York Times about incarceration in Houston, Texas neighborhoods. The Justice Mapping Center is featured prominently throughout the article.

To read this article, click here: Trying to Break Cycle of Prison at Street Level

An article about million dollar blocks in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn that uses Justice Mapping Center data.

To view this article, click here: Multi ‘million-dollar’ blocks of Brownsville

An article in TIME Magazine about the Justice Mapping Center’s use of maps and the approaches to reinvestment they inspire with an example from the Deschutes County, Oregon.

To read this article, click here: Road Map to Prevention

A Sunday Daily News article about the conditions surrounding one of the highest incarceration areas in Manhattan, which sites statistics from the Justice Mapping Center, and what public officials think about the idea of reinvestment.

To read this article, click here: Convict Alley in Harlem Nabe

A Sunday Daily News article about the Eddie Ellis and the origins of the Justice Mapping Center.

To read this article, click here: On the inside, cons wondered about numbers

A Talk of the Town article in the New Yorker about the mapping enterprise and our collaboration with Columbia University.

To read this article, click here: Rap Map

A New York features article by Washington Post New York Bureau Chief Michael Powell about the experience of men in high incarceration neighborhoods. The article sites statistics about Jamaica, Queens from the Justice Mapping Center.

To read this article, click here: Profiles of Men Who Fit the Description

A two-page summary by the Council of State Governments on prisoner reentry and Justice Reinvestment in Wichita, which includes a map of prison admissions from Wichita.

To read this report, click here: Overview of Prisoner Re-Entry and Justice Reinvestment in Kansas

A report by the Council of State Governments to the Committee of Rules and Regulations of the Kansas State Legislature about Justice Reinvestment. The PowerPoint report contains an extensive criminal justice population and resource analysis, as well as a review of other overlapping government program populations in Wichita.

To read this report, click here: Building Community Capacity to Reduce Crime and Save Prison Space

The cover story of the November 16, 2004 issue of the Village Voice by Jennifer Gonnerman on the disproportionate concentration of people going in and out of prison from particular neighborhoods in Brooklyn. The article focuses on “Million Dollar Blocks,” a term we coined to highlight the opportunity costs of mass incarceration concentrated in small neighborhood areas with a side bar article on the genesis of the million dollar blocks.

To read this article, click here: Million-Dollar Blocks: The Neighborhood Costs of America’s Prison Boom and The Making of the Map

A report by the Council of State Governments to the Appropriations Chair of the Connecticut General Assembly about Justice Reinvestment. The report contains a section of maps on criminal justice populations and resources, as well as other government program populations which overlap in New Haven and Hartford neighborhoods, which update a previous study conducted the year before.

To read this report, click here: Building Bridges: From Conviction to Employment – One Year Later

A report by the Council of State Governments to the Tulane University for the Louisiana Governor’s Task Force on Reentry about Justice Reinvestment. The report contains a section of maps on criminal justice populations and resources, as well as other government program populations which overlap in New Orleans

To read this report, click here: Options for Policymakers Considering a Justice Reinvestment Initiative in Louisiana

A book by Jeremy Travis from the Urban Institute on prisoner reentry with a chapter on children, families, and community. Chapter Nine contains an extensive analysis of criminal justice and other government program populations in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City, with a particular focus on the neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant.

For more information about this book, click here: Prisoners Once Removed

A report by the Urban Institute on prisoner reentry in New Jersey with an extensive section of maps on New Jersey criminal justice populations and resources, both adult and juvenile, which focus on Newark and the City of Camden.

To read this report, click here: A Portrait of Prisoner Reentry in New Jersey

A report by the Council of State Governments to the Connecticut Appropriations Chair of the General Assembly about Justice Reinvestment. The report contains a section of maps on criminal justice populations and resources, as well as other government program populations which overlap in New Haven and Hartford neighborhoods.

To read this report, click here: Building Bridges: From Conviction to Employment

A book by Todd Clear and Eric Cadora about the rise of community focused criminal justice approaches in policing, the courts, and corrections. The first chapter includes a map of Brooklyn prison admissions.

For more information about this book, click here: Community Justice