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Take action at the local level

Use our Democracy Toolkit to determine if prison populations are distorting your access to county government.

Publicize your findings, like these sample letters to the editor on local impacts:

Letter to the Tribune-Star in Terre Haute, Indiana about the fact that the city credited the federal prison population to City Council District 1, giving each group of 8 residents of District 1 as much political clout as 10 residents in other parts of the city.
Letter to the Daily Freeman in Greene County, New York supporting citizens in the town of Athens who wished to remove the Coxsackie prisons from the data used to draw county legislative districts.

Sign up for our weekly newsletter about the ongoing movement to change the U.S. Census' method of counting people in prison.

March 16, 2010: We'll be doing a briefing about prison-based gerrymandering in New York by conference call at 11am EST. Join us. More info.
March 24, 2010: We'll be doing a National briefing about prison-based gerrymandering by conference call at 11am EST. Join us. More info.
March 25-28, 2010: Peter Wagner will be attending the National Redistricting Seminar in Austin, Texas organized by the National Conference of State Legislatures
April 1, 2010: Peter Wagner will be speaking about the U.S. Census, mass-incarceration and prison-based gerrymandering at Smith College, Seeyle 206 in Northampton Mass at 6:30pm.

Not near you? Invite Peter to your town.

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