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Counting inmates in census skews legislative, county district drawing

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Maryland this week took the remarkable step of requiring that inmates be counted at their home addresses instead of the county in which they're imprisoned for purposes of legislative redistricting after the 2010 census. Good for them.Several Texas' legislative districts would look significantly different if prisoners were counted in the census as being from their home county instead of the one in which they're incarcerated. The problem most negatively impacts Houston, Dallas, and black communities, all of which disproportionately send inmates to TDCJ. According to Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer at Prisoners of the Census: "Harris County is 16.3% of the Texas population, but it supplies 21.5% of the state's prisoners. ... Dallas County is only 10...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).

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