http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2010/02/19/rome/ Challenging the Census Bureau's method of assigning residence to people in prison Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:36:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2010/02/19/rome/comment-page-1/#comment-6272 Jeff Reichert: What Is Prison-Based Gerrymandering? « In The News « Obama America Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:21:39 +0000 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/?p=848#comment-6272 [...] stories out of the rural New York cities of Rome and Hudson as well as Oneida County all feature elected officials expressing a willingness to stop [...] [...] stories out of the rural New York cities of Rome and Hudson as well as Oneida County all feature elected officials expressing a willingness to stop [...]

]]> http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2010/02/19/rome/comment-page-1/#comment-6269 Jeff Reichert: What Is Prison-Based Gerrymandering? | GoodPorkBadPork.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:25:42 +0000 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/?p=848#comment-6269 [...] stories out of the rural New York cities of Rome and Hudson as well as Oneida County all feature elected officials expressing a willingness to stop [...] [...] stories out of the rural New York cities of Rome and Hudson as well as Oneida County all feature elected officials expressing a willingness to stop [...]

]]> http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2010/02/19/rome/comment-page-1/#comment-5503 Who are the real victims of prison-based gerrymandering? | Prisoners of the Census Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:24:25 +0000 http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/?p=848#comment-5503 [...] Democracy is not a zero sum game, and when the data that democracy depends on is flawed, even those who benefit in one way lose in another. The residents of some state senate districts, for example, get extra representation when their leaders claim incarcerated people as residents; but they often suffer in local government. For example, most of the residents of Rome New York have less access to city government than they should, because half of one city council district is incarcerated people who are not from Rome. [...] [...] Democracy is not a zero sum game, and when the data that democracy depends on is flawed, even those who benefit in one way lose in another. The residents of some state senate districts, for example, get extra representation when their leaders claim incarcerated people as residents; but they often suffer in local government. For example, most of the residents of Rome New York have less access to city government than they should, because half of one city council district is incarcerated people who are not from Rome. [...]

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