Mapping American Justice and Injustice

The Justice Mapping Center uses demographic data to produce detailed, color-coded maps that show the damage done to neighborhoods, and the government resources exhausted, by a criminal justice system that depends upon mass incarceration. The JMC desribes its project this way:

"We specialize in using computer mapping—otherwise known as Geographic Information Systems or GIS—to help our partners better understand, evaluate, and communicate criminal justice and other social policy information" 

NPR reports on the JMC and the difference it is making for communities and policymakers, here.