by Peter Wagner, March 13, 2010
Neal Peirce has this column in Nation Cities Weekly published by the National League of Cities: How the Census Counts Prisoners: Significant Political Stakes [PDF, page 2].
Learn more about the organization behind the Prison Gerrymandering Project.
We explore the racial disparity inside prisons.
Rome finally corrected the problem of prison gerrymandering within its borders; other cities and counties need the Census Bureau's help.
This is not the first time a policy barred people of color from the polls and transferred their political power to white voters.