Digital urbanisms: being urban is being online: Visualizing the Costs of Incarceration in the US

digitalurbanisms:

“It cost 17 million dollars to imprison 109 People from these 17 blocks in 2003. We call these million dollar blocks. On a financial scale prisons are becoming the predominant governing institution in the neighborhood.”

Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams in Metropolis, Jan. 2012