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Baltimore will gain residents in prison count shift. New Maryland law, first of its kind, tallies inmates as residents of last permanent address, not location of pr

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Baltimore will gain residents in prison count shift New Maryland law, first of its kind, tallies inmates as residents of last permanent address, not location of prison By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun April 24, 2010 For more than two decades, Rico Marzano called prison cells in Jessup and Cumberland his home. But this year, the convicted murderer serving four consecutive life sentences will be recorded as a Baltimore resident, even though he won't step foot in his Frankford neighborhood any time soon. Marzano and thousands of other Maryland inmates are being reclassified under a contentious law approved this month by Gov. Martin O'Malley that alters how prison populations are counted during the once-a-decade census. Maryland became the first state to decide that inmates should be considered residents of the jurisdiction of their last permanent address, and not of the prisons where they are housed...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 25, 2010 (boomark / email).