Million-Dollar Blocks: The Neighborhood Costs of America’s Prison Boom
Articles, Featured, — Posted November 16th, 2004
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