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The crime rates in the most affected precincts are typically four times higher
than the lowest. But the highest-incarceration-rate precincts show activity upward
of ten times higher than those of the lowest-incarceration-rate precincts. Like pov-
erty, incarceration is spatially concentrated, and much more so than crime. It is as
if by imprisoning the residents of these neighborhoods—making them disappear
from their city—we were simply mirroring the disappearance of the conversation
on poverty.
Prisonadmissionsbycensustract,Brooklyn,NewYork,2003.