Million-Dollar Blocks - Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics - page 140

REDEFINING THE PROBLEM: MASS MIGRATION AND REENTRY
Six hundred thousand people return from prison each year in the United States,
and millions more come home from jails. 70 About two hundred and forty thousand
of the released prisoners—roughly 40 percent—will return to prison within three
years. 71 In and out, they come and go, all too often simply cycling back and forth
between the same places. New maps can help us grasp this extraordinary phenom-
enon: prison migration, and with it, high-resettlement communities. When crime
maps are replaced by incarceration maps, we can finally visualize the geography of
Prisonermigrationpatterns,BrooklyntoNewYorkState,2003.