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 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

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 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