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Welcome to Citiwire.net — March 14, 2010

Welcome to Citiwire.net! Cities are “on the prowl” worldwide, picking up notes from each other, far more often than one would ever think — a phenomenon described by the Citistates Group’s new Associate, Tim Campbell. I’ll be picking up on the international angles directly at the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro the next two weeks, and reporting from there. … My column this week focuses on a real domestic injustice — prisoners being “counted,” for apportionment and federal aid allocation purposes, at the mostly-rural locations of most current-day penitentiaries, not the cities where most of them come from.