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Significant political stakes ride on how the census counts prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Significant political stakes ride on how the census counts prisoners Should the census count inmates as residents of the prisons where they're held ? often hundreds of miles from home? Or should they be tallied as citizens of the cities or counties they came from? How the issue plays out, writes columnist Neal Peirce, will influence not just state politics but big decisions in federal grant policies too. Should the census count inmates as residents of the prisons where they're held ? often hundreds of miles from home? Or should they be tallied as citizens of the cities or counties they came from? An agreement just reached between the U.S. Census Bureau and Rep. William Clay Jr., D-Mo., the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees census issues, may signal a historic shift in how the bureau reports prisoners to state and local governments...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).