Maps elsewhere: Ontario incarceration rates

Reporter Jim Rankin has the first part of a series on neighbourhood incarceration rates in today's paper. You may remember a similar series in 2007 - the major update this year is data including the full six-digit postal codes of jail inmates, which allows for very detailed mapping.

Rankin was at first denied this information, but eventually the Information and Privacy Commissioner office ruled in his favour on appeal (the decision can be read here)

In any case, two maps go with today's story:

a Flash-based interactive map of incarceration rates by postal code covering the whole province and

an incarceration map of Toronto based on six-digit postal codes.

It bears more than a passing resemblance to our map of male homicide victims from a few weeks ago.