http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2008/10/20/newprisons/ Challenging the Census Bureau's method of assigning residence to people in prison Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:21:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2008/10/20/newprisons/comment-page-1/#comment-5274 Effects of the US Census: Prison-based electoral politics grows as number of inmates around the nation balloons « Geography 101 | Spring 2009 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:02:48 +0000 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/?p=176#comment-5274 [...] New prisons mean new challenge for democracy in rural county An article about Chippewa County’s coming crisis from the prison miscount. Wagner writes: ”One of the new prisons in Chippewa County is large enough to create a bigger vote dilution problem than in any other county we’ve studied in Wisconsin. If the districts were redrawn today, the district that included the Stanley Correctional Institution would be 72% prisoners. Every group of 28 residents near the prison would be given as much as say over the future of the county as 100 residents in every other district. Giving a small group of people 3 times as much political power as other residents because they happen to have a prison nearby isn’t just unfair; it violates state and federal law.” [...] [...] New prisons mean new challenge for democracy in rural county An article about Chippewa County’s coming crisis from the prison miscount. Wagner writes: ”One of the new prisons in Chippewa County is large enough to create a bigger vote dilution problem than in any other county we’ve studied in Wisconsin. If the districts were redrawn today, the district that included the Stanley Correctional Institution would be 72% prisoners. Every group of 28 residents near the prison would be given as much as say over the future of the county as 100 residents in every other district. Giving a small group of people 3 times as much political power as other residents because they happen to have a prison nearby isn’t just unfair; it violates state and federal law.” [...]

]]> http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2008/10/20/newprisons/comment-page-1/#comment-5143 More on the US Census and the politics of prisons in Wisconsin « Geography 101 Fall 2008 UW Madison Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:34:46 +0000 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/?p=176#comment-5143 [...] New prisons mean new challenge for democracy in rural county  An article about Chippewa County’s coming crisis from the prison miscount. Wagner writes: ”One of the new prisons in Chippewa County is large enough to create a bigger vote dilution problem than in any other county we’ve studied in Wisconsin. If the districts were redrawn today, the district that included the Stanley Correctional Institution would be 72% prisoners. Every group of 28 residents near the prison would be given as much as say over the future of the county as 100 residents in every other district. Giving a small group of people 3 times as much political power as other residents because they happen to have a prison nearby isn’t just unfair; it violates state and federal law.” Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Census Bureau’s Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Dist…County Upholds Tax on Some Clarksburg ResidentsAs many as 7 dead in Alabama prison van crash [...] [...] New prisons mean new challenge for democracy in rural county  An article about Chippewa County’s coming crisis from the prison miscount. Wagner writes: ”One of the new prisons in Chippewa County is large enough to create a bigger vote dilution problem than in any other county we’ve studied in Wisconsin. If the districts were redrawn today, the district that included the Stanley Correctional Institution would be 72% prisoners. Every group of 28 residents near the prison would be given as much as say over the future of the county as 100 residents in every other district. Giving a small group of people 3 times as much political power as other residents because they happen to have a prison nearby isn’t just unfair; it violates state and federal law.” Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Census Bureau’s Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Dist…County Upholds Tax on Some Clarksburg ResidentsAs many as 7 dead in Alabama prison van crash [...]

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