Justice Mapping

Criminal-justice experts name the “million-dollar blocks” phenomenon when the total cost to incarcerate residents from one city block exceeds $1 million.

The Million Dollar Blocks project is part of a two year research and development project on Graphical Innovation in Justice Mapping by the Spatial Information Design Lab of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia.

These maps have attracted attention nationwide from state legislators struggling to balance their budgets. Prison-spending maps highlight the fact that money spent on million-dollar blocks winds up in another part of the state—far from the scene of the crime.

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