Local governments that exclude prison populations
Last update: December 31, 2007
This page accepts reader submissions about local governments that excluded prison populations in their various districting arrangements. As this material is very difficult to collect, please send in any communities that should be on the list. For why this matters, see this article about small Ohio cities with large prison populations that fail to disregard the prison population when redistricting Legislative districts belong to the people, not the politicians
States that require local governmental bodies to exclude prison populations from their local districting
States that encourage local governmental bodies to exclude prison populations from their local districting
- Virginia: Counties that are more than 12% prisoners (Three of the 4 counties eligible excluded the prison population. The fourth, Buckingham County, arrived at the same result by other means: they split the prison population up between all the districts.
Counties, cities and towns that choose to exclude prison populations from local redistricting
- Franklin County, NY
- Greene County, NY
- Cayuga, Chemung, Clinton, Dutchess, Essex, Orange, Orleans, Schoharie, Sullivan, Washington and Wyoming counties in NY
- Gardner, MA
- Mission, San Luis Obispo and Madera Counties, CA
- Gulf County, FL
- Iberville Parish, LA school board (and perhaps other bodies)
- Evangeline Parish school board (and perhaps other bodies)
- West Feliciana Parish, LA
- Calhoun, Tattnall, Macon, and Telfair counties, GA
- City of Milledgeville in Baldwin county, GA
- Knox County, Illinois (at least in 1992)
- Lima, Ohio