MEDIA
PRESS RELEASES AND POLICY BRIEFS
·
The Sentencing Project, October 10, 2024. “New Sentencing
Project Report Reveals 4 Million Americans Denied Voting Rights Due to Felony
Convictions.”
·
UMN
News, November 9, 2021. “Out of work, despite paying debt
to society.”
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Ohio
State, October 5, 2017, “Perpetrators of Genocide say
they’re Good People.”
·
UMN
News, April 20, 2017, “U of M Research Team Tracks
Complex Web of Monetary Sanctions.”
·
UMN
News, June 22, 2016, "Christopher Uggen Named Regents
Professor."
·
American Sociological Association. 2013. "Study Examines Link Between
Incarceration and Psychiatric Disorders."
·
Sentencing Project. 2012. “New Report: Record 5.85 Million
Disenfranchised, Broad Racial Disparities.”
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American Sociological Association, 2009. "Female Supervisors
More Susceptible to Workplace Sexual Harassment."
·
Network on Transitions to
Adulthood Policy Brief, 2005. “Weaving Young Ex-Offenders Back
into the Fabric of Society.”
·
American Political Science Association. 2004. “Disenfranchised Voters.”
·
American Sociological Association. 2004. “Males and Adolescents Are
Increasingly Victims of Sexual Harassment.”
·
American Sociological Association. 2004. “New York Times Year in Ideas.”
·
American Sociological Association. 2003. “If Felons Could Have Voted,
National Election Outcomes Would Have Been Different.”
PROFILES AND EXTENDED INTERVIEWS
- Hourlong video interview (with Sarah
Shannon) for ASC Oral History of Criminology Project.
- U News, June 22, 2016, "Christopher Uggen Named Regents Professor."
- Brief, October 2, 2012, “The Right to Vote”
- Brief, November 17, 2010, “Profile of criminologist Chris Uggen.”
- The Rights Stuff, April 2009, “Providing a Second Chance.”
- Footnotes, July/August
2007, "Hartmann and Uggen are the New Editors of Contexts."
- Facets, Spring 2005, “Doing Justice to Criminals.”
- CLA Today, Summer
2002, “Behrens and Uggen: From Questioning to Discovery.”
- University of Minnesota Foundation 2002 Report, “Vote of Confidence.”
RESEARCH CITED IN MEDIA (SELECTED)
·
Our Locked Out 2024 report was
discussed in 284 articles and 110 broadcast clips during the first month of its
release, including New York Times, Daily Mail, The Independent, Associated
Press, ABC News, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, SF Gate, Seattle Times,
Cleveland.com, Phys.org, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic,
Breitbart, Detroit News, Houston Chronicle, Newsday, La Opinión,
Phillyvoice, and numerous NPR affiliates.
- New York Times, October 17, 2024, voting; April 6, 2023, voting; December 27,
2021, police violence; April 8, 2021; April 6, 2021,
incarcerated for voting; April 28, 2019, prison voting; September 26,
2018, felon voting; May 11, 2018, rights restoration; April 21, 2018;
January 2, 2018, felon voting; October 6, 2016, February 28, 2015,
December 9, 2014, November 18, 2014, June 2, 2013 and July 15, 2012, link
to SP felon voting report; New York
Times Online - Freakonomics, October 16, 2008, modern outlaws;
September 14, 2008, felon disenfranchisement;, September 17, 2004, research cited in op-ed; March 28, 2004, felon voting – Florida;
The New York Times Magazine, December 13, 2003, “ideas issue”; December 29, 2002: ex-felons;
May 15, 2001, felon voting;
November 3, 2000, felon voting
- KQED, San Francisco; voting; October 31, 2024
- Roland Martin
Unfiltered (Black Star
Network); voting; October 23, 2024
- Arizona Daily
Star; voting; October
22, 2024
- Birmingham News; voting; May 6,
2024
·
Our Locked Out 2022 report was discussed in over
376 media outlets (177 radio, 35 TV, and 107 online news sources) during the
week of October 23, 2022. I only did interviews for a fraction of these, but
the report appeared on NPR, CNN, New York Times, Guardian, etc.
- In the first 24 hours after our press call on October 14, 2020 our Sentencing Project report Locked Out 2020 (with Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, and Arleth
Pulido-Nava) was included in 90 articles and 52 broadcast hits, with an
estimated “total reach” of 1,777,702,980. Coverage included stories in the
New York Times, CNN, Vox, Buzzfeed,
CBS News, MSN, the Associated Press, The Hill, and Forbes.
- Richmond
Times-Dispatch, October 23, 2023, Virginia voting
- Twin Cities
Business Monthly, October 2, 2023, crime in Minneapolis
- Minneapolis
Star-Tribune, January 19, 2025, crime rates; September 12, 2023, crime;
September 3, 2023, violence; May 30, 2022,
suburban crime; January 1, 2022, carjackings; December 30, 2021, crime
rates; July 18, 2020, cool things in music; April 16, 2020, landscape of
criminal justice; January 12, 2020, collateral consequences of conviction;
December 20, 2016, sexual
assault; January 30, 2015; October 20, 2012; November 8, 2010; May 21,
2008; January 30, 2007; December 31, 2005; June 5, 2005; June 13, 2004; April 1, 2004; October 15,
2003; May 30, 2001; May 8, 2000; September 17, 1998; November 15, 1995
- KARE11 News, December 9, 2024,
violence; March 11, 2023, unsolved murders; September 29,
2021, murder rates; June 11, 2018, marijuana enforcement
- Fox 9 News (Minneapolis), February 21, 2023, disenfranchisement; August 27, 2022, business crime; August 15,
2022, car theft; August 8, 2009, sexual harassment
- PBS Wisconsin, March 20, 2023, disenfranchisement
- Mother Jones, April 13, 2023, prosecutors; July 21, 2020, Florida disenfranchisement; Nov/Dec 2018 felon voting; October 3, 2018, voting rights
movements; October 2, 2017; July 13, 2012,
felon voting
- The Guardian, January 4, 2023, incarceration for voting; December 27, 2022, illegal voting; January 8, 2022
disenfranchisement; July 12, 2020,
Washington, DC disenfranchisement; July 3, 2012; February 10, 2011
- PBS Newshour, October 25, 2022, Florida voting
- Minnesota Public Radio, August 16, 2022,
crime rates; December 21, 2021, Minnesota crime; May 1, 2017,
monetary sanctions; March 8, 2017, reentry; December 21, 2016, sexual
assault; November 25, 2015, criminal records; December 16, 2014, crime
rates; September 20, 2010, felon voting; May, 2010, crime rates; April 27,
2010, higher education; November 19, 2009, employment and recidivism;
October 31, 2008; October 1, 2008, felon voting; Morning Edition, July 7, 2004, felon reenfranchisement;
January 21, 2004: prisoner reentry; November 16, 2001, felon voting; Morning Edition, January 8, 2003,
felon voting
- The Marshall Project, March 24, 2022,
disenfranchisement; March 11, 2020, survey of prisoners
- NBC News, November 1, 2021, Black
incarceration; May 3, 2019, Florida voting; September 10,
2012, felon voting
- San Diego Union-Tribune. August 22, 2021,
sexual harassment (exchange)
- Minnesota Monthly.
January 9, 2023, crime rates
- Jackson Hole News & Guide, August 25, 2021, Wyoming disenfranchisement
- WSKG/NPR, June 22,
2021, civil rights and disenfranchisement
- Connecticut
Mirror, June 3, 2021, reenfranchisement
- Federal Reserve
Bank of Minneapolis, November 14, 2020, employment
discrimination
- Miami Herald, November 8, 2020, Florida voting
- Arkansas Times, November 4, 2020, Arkansas monetary sanctions
- The Press
Democrat, October 20, 2020, Proposition 17, California
disenfranchisement
- Mississippi Today,
October 19, 2020, Mississippi
disenfranchisement
- Yahoo News, MSN,
Politico, Democracy Now!, Associated Press,
Center for Public Integrity, Alternet, BuzzFeed
News, New York Times, Forbes, Vox, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 14-16, 2020, new disenfranchisement report
- Tampa Bay Times, October 15, 2020, Florida disenfranchisement
- Des Moines
Register, October 14, 2020, Iowa disenfranchisement
- Minnesota
Reformer, September 22, 2020, catalytic converter theft
- Philadelphia
Inquirer, August 9, 2020, disenfranchisement
- KTCA-TV, Almanac, October
26, 2019, disenfranchisement, November 4, 2016, July 15, 2016, December
11, 2015, gun violence; August 29, 2014, September 28, 2012, workplace
violence; July 24, 2009, crime rates
- Daily Nous, August 29, 2019, sexual harassment
- Center for American Progress, October 2, 2019
community safety; August 7, 2019, inequality and democracy
- MSNBC, April 24, 2019, prisoners voting;
April 25, 2016, disenfranchisement.
- Huffington Post, April 26, 2019, voting; January 8, 2019, disenfranchisement;
December 24, 2018; December 18, 2018; November 28, 2017,
disenfranchisement; October 27, 2018; October 2, 2018; November 7,
2017; October 25, 2017; October 2,
2017; April 28, 2017; March 11, 2016, democracy; November 2, 2015, felon
voting; May 28, 2013, felon turnout, September 1, 2012, drug convictions;
July 12, 2012, felon voting; June 11, 2008, research cited
- Pacific Standard, May 2, 2019, prison voting; November 21, 2017, sexual harassment
- Minnpost, March 12, 2019, felon voting; September 20, 2010, felon voting
- Quartz, December 24, 2018, jails and voting; October 6, 2016
- Washington Post, November 12, 2018, partisanship and disenfranchisement; November
7, 2018, Florida; December 11, 2017, disenfranchisement; November 30,
2017; July 21, 2017; October 7, 2016, March 31, 2016, December 2, 2015,
felon partisanship;
February 23, 2015, September 17, 2014, August 20, 2014,
Ferguson; January 11, 2013; July 29, 2012, link to felon voting report
- The Atlantic, November 4, 2018, jails and voting; March 29, 2016, felon voting;
January 7, 2014, felon voting; October 10, 2013, prisons and politics
- PRI’s The World, October 9, 2018, voting rights restoration
- CBS News, August
30, 2018; June 15, 2018, illegal voting
·
Vox, June 9, 2018, sexual harassment; May 9,
2018, reenfranchisement; November 7, 2017
- Politifact, April 25, 2018, rights restoration; November 4, 2014; October 27,
2014; January 23, 2014
- Los Angeles Times October 20,2020,
parole and reenfranchisement; January 6,
2018, sexual harassment; July 18, 2003, ex-felon voting (Op-Ed);
June 23, 2008, voting
- Toronto Star, January 5, 2018, sexual harassment
- Bloomberg, January 4, 2018, sexual harassment; May 19, 2015, Clinton voting
·
PBS
Newshour, January 2, 2018, former felons; November 13, 2016,
voting
·
Salon,
January 1, 2018, Florida voting; November 29, 2017,
disenfranchisement; May 12, 2017 ; May 26th, 2015,
mass incarceration; April 15th, 2015, disenfranchisement ; April 6, 2007,
Florida disenfranchisement; October 19, 2006, disenfranchisement
·
The
Nation, December 20, 2017, disenfranchisement; September 5,
2012; August 27, 2007; August 9, 2007; December 5, 2006; November 6, 2003,
interview with Rebecca Perl
- Fortune, December 11, 2017, sexual harassment
·
Wall
Street Journal, December 10, 2017, felon disenfranchisement;
September 7, 2012, prison demographics; July 14, 2010, felon voting; November
11, 2009, criminal records; May 4, 2007, Florida disenfranchisement; September
8, 2006, felon disenfranchisement; September 2, 2006, felon disenfranchisement;
March 7, 2005; August 12, 2004, former felons and election
- Elle, December 20, 2017, sexual harassment; September 16, 2016
·
Newsweek,
December 10, 2017, felon voting; October 24, 2016,
October 11, 2004, interview with Sarah Childress
- Harvard Business
Review, November 29, 2017, sexual harassment
- The Economist, December 19, 2017, sexual harassment; August 6, 2009, sex
offenders; July 9, 2005, Iowa ex-felons; August 10, 2002, ex-felons
as a criminal class
- CNN Money, November 9, 2017, sexual harassment
- NPR Marketplace, November 3, 2017, sexual harassment
- Financial Times, October 25, 2017, sexual harassment
- NPR, October 21, 2017, disenfranchisement
- FiveThirtyEight, October 11, 2017, sexual harassment
- Science Daily, October 9, 2017 genocide perpetrators; September 28, 2017, felon population; January
16, 2013, incarceration and mental health
- International
Business Times, October 6, 2017, genocide perpetrators
- Business Insider, August 19, 2017, sexual harassment
- Science News, August 8, 2017, genocide perpetrators
- MTV, June 12, 2017, disenfranchisement
- Commentary, February 15, 2017, felon population
- PBS Newshour November 13, 2016
- NJTV News, November 8,
2016, census; November 3, 2016, disenfranchisement
·
In
These Times, September 12, 2016, August 10, 2004, former felons
- New Yorker, August 18, 2016
- BBC News, April 24, 2016, felon voting
- New York Post, April 4, 2016, criminal class
- FactCheck.org, December 1, 2015, Ted Cruz statements
- Newsmax, April 15, 2015
- Slate, March 18, 2015, felon voting; June 23, 2014, felon voting; August
17, 2012, SP report; April 27, 2007
- WCCO-TV News, December 19, 2013, sports and crime; June 5, 2013, cold-case
investigations; August 6, 2012, trends in violent crime
- National Review Online ,February 12, 2014; October 18,
2004; January 8, 2004, felon
voting; May 2, 2002, felon voting
- Time Magazine, October 25, 2012, public opinion on felon voting; January 21, 2002,
felon voting
·
The
Guardian, July 13, 2012, felon voting; July 3, 2012, felon voting; February
10, 2011, felon voting
·
Reuters,
October 24, 2012, felon voting
·
Royal
Gazette (Bermuda), December
20, 2012, voting
·
Reason.com,
September 20, 2012, kids and violence
·
Human
Resources Journal, August 29, 2012, sexual harassment
·
Philadelphia
Inquirer, August 15, 2012, felon voting
·
Daily
Beast, July 12, 2012, felon voting
·
The
Grio, July 12, 2012, felon
voting
·
New
Orleans Times Picayune, July 12, 2012, felon voting
·
ESPN-The
Magazine, May 20, 2011, athletes and crime
- Fox News, July 12, 2010, felon voting; October 20, 2008, felon voting; February 2, 2004, felon voting;
·
Inside
Higher Ed, June 18, 2010, criminology and sociology; June 23,
2008, criminology and sociology
·
The
Right Focus On…, December 2009, criminal records (1-hour television
panel)
·
Atlanta
Journal Constitution, August 12, 2009, sexual harassment
·
MSN
Health and Fitness, August 12, 2009, sexual harassment
·
US
News & World Report Healthday, August
12, 2009, sexual harassment
·
Globe
and Mail (Canada), August 11, 2009, sexual harassment
·
UPI.com,
August 11, 2009 sexual
harassment
·
Economic
Times (India), August 10, 2009, sexual harassment
·
Times
of India, August 9, 2009, sexual harassment
·
E!
Science News, August 9, 2009, sexual harassment
- Minnesota Daily,
several appearances, December 8, 2014, November 24, 2008; November 23,
2008; February 19, 2008; February 14, 2008; February 13, 2008; November 1,
2007; February 6, 2006; January 17, 2006; April 7, 2004
·
Fedgazette,
March 2009, economy and crime
·
St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 1, 2009; February 28, 2009; May 30, 2007;
November 14, 2005; January 1, 2005; April 18, 2004; March 28, 2004; January 1, 2004; January 4, 2004;
January 9, 2003; January 3, 2003; November 6, 2002; October 30, 2002; April 17,
2002; February 12, 2002; December 30, 2001; December 18, 2001; July 15, 2001;
May 30, 2001; April 23, 2001; December 19, 2000, May 17, 1998
·
The
Seattle Times, June 24, 2008
·
Air
America Radio’s Considering Faith, May 18, 2008, prisoner
reintegration
- Chicago Tribune, October 3, 2007, sexual harassment; October 29, 2004; (reprinted in
Kansas City Star, Macon Telegraph,
St. Paul Pioneer Press) July 20-28, 2004, felon voting – Florida
- Footnotes, July/August, 2007, Contexts; Footnotes, February 2003: felon voting
- Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel, June 2, 2007, research cited;
July 23, 2005, building lives after prison; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,
Lincoln Journal Star, Charleston Post and Courier, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 17th, 2014 April 26-28, 2004, sexual harassment
·
ZNet,
April 21, 2007, research cited; ZNet, March
4, 2007, research cited
·
New
York Review of Books, April 12, 2007, Locked Out
- USA Today, June 1, 2006, felony
disenfranchisement
- American Urban
Radio (Kelsey Hill), May 16, 2006, Locked Out
- USA Network/Daybreak (Al Lerner), May 8, 2006, Locked Out
- Al Franken Show (Air America radio), April 4, 2006, felon voting
- The New Standard, March 31, 2006, felon “poll tax”
- The Chronicle of
Higher Education, March 24, 2006, Locked Out
- Associated Press (New York Newsday), June 21, 2005, sex offenders; March 2, 2005, interview
with Malia Rulon
- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21, 2005
- The Washington Times, March 8, 2005; March 24,
2004, sexual harassment; The Washington Times, July 23, 2003, felon
voting; The Washington Times, July 14, 2002, felon voting
- Financial Times
Deutschland (Germany), October 27, 2004
·
Village
Voice, October 12, 2004; December 6-12
2000, election
- National Public Radio, Day to
Day, October 5, 2004, interview with Kathy Witkowsky; Sound Money, National Public Radio,
May 22, 2004, sexual harassment; Whose Vote Counts?, National Public Radio affiliates (November 4, 2003; All
Things Considered, National Public Radio, February 7, 2001, prison
reentry
- The Boston Globe, October 4, 2004, research cited in op-ed
- Istoé Independente (Brazil), September 29, 2004, sexual harassment
- KDXU radio (St. George, UT), The
Donovan Report, September 22, 2004
- WNWS radio (Jackson, TN), FYI,
September 21, 2004, interview and callers
- Taiwan News, September 20, 2004
- Sacramento Bee, September 12, 2004
- For the People (syndicated talk radio), September 7, 2004
- KMOX radio (St. Louis, MO), August 30, 2004
- Al Franken Show (syndicated talk radio), August 26, 2004, felon voting
- The Wire, 2SER-FM Radio (Sydney, Australia), August 23, 2004, felon voting
- The Bev Smith Show
(syndicated talk radio), August 23, 2004,
interview and callers
- Make it Plain, XM-169 Radio, August 12, 2004, race and felon voting
- Making Contact (syndicated radio), August
4, 2004, felon voting
- Ohio Public Radio, July 23, 2004, felon voting - Ohio
- BET.com, Black Entertainment Television, July 7, 2004, race and felon
voting
- San Francisco Chronicle, February 28, 2004, felon voting
- The American Prospect, December 2003, employment and crime
- Pravda, December 4, 2003,
research cited on felon voting
- Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2003, public opinion on felons
- Brisbane Courier-Mail (Australia), December 30, 2002: incarceration
- KMSP-TV (Minneapolis), December 30, 2001, crime rates
- Rolling Stone, August 20, 2001, felon voting
- ABC-TV (World News Tonight), March 26, 2001, felon voting
- The Independent, January 14, 2001: Noam Chomsky on 2000 election
- National Law Journal, October 24, 2000,
felon voting
- National Post (Toronto, Canada), October 2,
2000, felon voting
- Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, May 8, 2000, crime rates