proliferation -- an animated mapping of u.s. prison growth
via Sarah W: Artist Paul Rucker uses animated mapping and a powerful original score to depict U.S. prison growth in Proliferation. Each dot corresponds to a new prison -- and the punishment, pains, and penance therein. I believe the source data are based on some Geographic Information Systems work by Rose Heyer at the Prison Policy Institute. The result is surely more effective and affecting than social science presentations of the same information.
posted by christopher uggen @ 6:40 PM
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This is great. Thanks for posting it. I sent a link to my criminology students (at Tulane). We're in the process of reading Todd Clear's "Imprisoning Communities" and some are working with the Orleans Public Defenders' office so this visual should really hit the spot.
steve
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