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Editorial- NY Times A Fairer Way to Count

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial- NY Times A Fairer Way to Count Published: April 14, 2010 Maryland struck a blow for electoral fairness this week with a new law requiring that prison inmates be counted at their home addresses when legislative districts are redrawn after the 2010 census. Other states should follow. Counting inmates as residents ? prison-based gerrymandering ? inflates populations and exaggerates the power of the mainly rural districts where prisons tend to get built. It undercuts the power of the mainly urban districts where the inmates come from, their families live, and to which they return after release. With 1.4 million inmates nationally, the practice of drawing districts around prisons can easily shift a state?s balance of legislative power...continue to full post

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