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LOCKED UP IN THE CENSUS COUNT

Tracy Huling and Marc Mauer Tracy Huling is producer of "Yes, In My Backyard," a documentary examining rural dependence on prisons Marc Mauer is the assistant director of The Sentencing Project and the author of "Race to Incarcerate"

2000

Overview

As the nation prepares to complete the census, a little-known counting provision portends what might appear to be an unheralded triumph of integration--significant black and Hispanic populations in once lily-white rural towns. These demographics are not the legacy of the civil-rights movement, though. Rather, the new minority denizens of rural America are part of the nation's burgeoning prison population.

• Publisher: Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
• Subject: Census of Population / Demographics / Prisoners / Rural areas