Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Utica NY: Don?t count prisoners as constituents

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Don?t count prisoners as constituents Utica Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY) editorial. Jan 7, 2010 AT ISSUE: Using inmates to determine county?s legislative districts is wrong. It is simply inane that the 6,000-plus prison inmates at Oneida County?s four prisons are factored into population totals for county legislative districts. County legislators have the power to raise county taxes and approve local laws on issues such as texting while driving. Yet absolutely none of their actions apply to state prisoners incarcerated at Marcy, Mid-State, Mohawk and Oneida correctional facilities. Prisoners don?t pay local property taxes. They don?t drive on county roads. They don?t vote, or attend county meetings, or advocate for or against local issues...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).