ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses that controversy through the combined lens of census and carceral-geographic research, and fills an empirical gap in the controversy's scholarly and legal discourse by adding the interviewed voices of formerly imprisoned people to the conversation. It explores the controversy using a Foucauldian approach to census-taking as the production of 'spatial legibility' and 'calculable territory'. The chapter focuses on carceral-geographic work that insistently demonstrates the simultaneous fixity and mobility produced and sustained via imprisonment. It offers a discussion of what is at stake in the controversy's origins and its possible outcomes through the lens of statistical citizenship. The chapter outlines the controversy and describes the methodological approach employed for this research. Geographers are constructing a vibrant critical geography of census taking and other geo-coding projects. The spatial structure of imprisonment is reflected in the life histories and geographies narrated by participants in his/her research.
