Interactive Graphic Representation of the FY11 Budget Proposal for the Obama Administration (Drag your cursor over the blocks to see how the money will be spent. Direct prison related is in Administration.)
Information about Prison Gerrymandering
Information about the FY11 Budget for the Federal Prison System
The Obama Administration's 2011 Budget: More Policing, Prisons, and Punitive Policies
Counter-cartographies Collective (their death and taxes map is powerful – you can at least look at it online)
Prison Policy Index
Sentencing Project
Colorlines – great resource for current info
AREA Chicago (our own, in Chicago, good local coverage – this is the ‘justice’ issue)
Busting Out - Utne Reader
Books:
The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison by Stephne Cox (2009)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010).
The Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies (2007) by Erica Meiners.
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis.
