Mapping Justice and Inequality in the US

A picture speaks a thousand words- or in this case, a map. There are now a few groups that have been producing great resources on the geography of incarceration and inequality in the American justice system. From a spatial perspective, the geographic divisions in who goes to jail and who doesn't becomes much more tangible- for the most part, incarceration is clustered in poor, often minority neighborhoods. Check out these maps created by the Justice Mapping Center and the Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections to see some alarming patterns of incarceration across the US.