http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news challenging the Census Bureau's method of assigning residence to people in prison Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:08:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cross-posted from TomPaine.com.There once was a time when in the state of New Hampshire, wealth bought votes. It wasn't illicit or even unusual. In fact it was the law of the state. The amount of power each Senate district had was directly proportional to its taxes paid. This method of ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2008/01/08/nh/ International Treaty Violation Also Cited NEW YORK, Dec. 13 -- The United States Census practice of counting prisoners in their districts of incarceration rather than their home districts for the purpose of establishing electoral and Congressional representation is a violation of international treaty. This month, the non-partisan public policy ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/12/13/cerdrelease/ The New York Times editorial page reported yesterday that a budget dispute between the Bush Administration and Congress is endangering the 2010 Census. In response to the budget shortfall, the Census Bureau has canceled next year's practice count of people in prison, military barracks, college dorms, nursing homes, and shelters. ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/10/30/budgetbattle/ With the 2010 Census approaching, a key question presents itself: Where should Ohio's prison population be counted? There is a nationwide controversy about the Census Bureau's practice of counting prisoners as residents of the prison location. This practice unconstitutionally inflates political clout in rural prison towns by counting nonvoting ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/10/24/ohiocities/ Announce National Letter-Writing Campaign to Urge Policy Change For Immediate Release: October 18, 2007 Contact: Michael Meade 646-522-8601 Peter Wagner 857-753-1132 Today, State Senator Eric Schneiderman, Peter Wagner, Executive Director of the Prison Policy Initiative, State Senators Eric Adams and Liz Krueger, Assemblymembers Adriano Espaillat, Micah Kellner, Keith Wright and Adam Clayton ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/10/18/letterpress/ Prison-based gerrymandering is especially egregious in New York, where prison inmates -- who are denied the right to vote -- are routinely counted as "residents" to pad out legislative districts. This practice falsely inflates the political power of districts with prisons, while undercutting districts with larger voting populations. State senators who ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/07/23/nyt-phantom/ Contact: Peter Wagner, 413/527-1333 July 18 - The federal Census counts state and federal prisoners as part of the local population, and that creates big problems for county government, charges a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative. The report explains that the Census Bureau wants New York county governments to ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/07/18/nycounties/ It should come as no surprise that one of the few people to publicly oppose changing the way the U.S. Census Bureau counts people in prison would be the New York State Senator with the largest imprisoned population: Senator Elizabeth Little. What is noteworthy, however, is that Little's recent comments ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/04/18/little/ Today the Prison Policy Initiative launched the Democracy Toolkit, a set of online tools designed to help rural citizens determine if prison populations in legislative districts are diluting their right to equal representation. Despite the fact that people in prison remain legal residents of the place they lived prior to ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/04/10/toolkit/ The Census Bureau typically uses the decennial census to test data-collection methods that become routine later on. The 2010 census should include a test run at counting the nation's 1.4 million prison inmates at their permanent addresses instead of in prisons. That would help bring an end to a corrosive ... http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2007/01/17/windfall/