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

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