Articles on New York ending prison-based gerrymandering
by Aleks Kajstura, August 6, 2010
The New York bill that ends prison-based gerrymandering in the state has been getting a lot of press coverage. Here are our top picks:
- Wall Street Journal: Under New Bill, NYC’s Convicts Won’t Pad Upstate Districts
- Post Star (Glens Falls, NY): I Think Not: Counting Correctly, staff blog post by Will Doolittle.
- Times Union (Albany, NY) editorial: Prison politics in a new light
- Miller-McCune: New York Takes Swing at Prison Gerrymandering
- Change.org: New York Votes to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering
- Amsterdam News: Victory: Anti-prison gerrymandering bill passes
- North Country Public Radio: Inmates to be excluded from North Country districts (audio), by David Sommerstein
- RI Future.org: New York to Become 3rd State Eliminating Prison-Based Gerrymandering
