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	<title>Prisoners of the Census</title>
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	<description>Challenging the Census Bureau&#039;s method of assigning residence to people in prison</description>
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		<title>Will Doolittle: Change in inmate counting is only a start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Doolittle’s new column in the Glens Falls <i>Post-Star</i> asks what prison-based gerrymandering can reveal about broader inequalities in the criminal justice system.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/02/03/doolittle/</link>
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		<title>Virginia bill against prison-based gerrymandering passes House unanimously</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HB 13, which would allow more counties to reject prison-based gerrymandering, passed unanimously in the Virginia House and now advances to the Senate.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/02/02/hb13-house/</link>
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		<title>Prison law about fairness, not partisanship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily News recently published a letter to the editor by Peter Wagner explaining that the law ending prison-based gerrymandering in New York is about democratic fairness rather than petty partisanship.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/27/daily-news-lte/</link>
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		<title>Missouri Municipal Review: Prison Populations Create Complications at Redistricting Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The January, 2012 issue of the Missouri Municipal Review includes my article on how prisons create problems for Missouri cities at redistricting time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/27/mmr/</link>
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		<title>How Prison-based Gerrymandering Changes District Lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New video (using an example district that was drawn in New York after the 2000 Census) explains how prison-based gerrymandering can alter district lines.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/27/114video/</link>
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		<title>New York Times editorial board praises court&#8217;s decision to uphold Maryland law ending prison-based gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the New York Times printed an editorial praising a Federal District Court’s decision to uphold the 2010 law that ended prison-based gerrymandering in Maryland.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/17/nyt-md/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s &#8220;the law&#8221; not &#8220;a deal&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York's partisan vortex makes an agreement to follow the law ending prison-based gerrymandering appear to be a change in the text of the law. It's not. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/13/not-a-deal/</link>
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		<title>New Race, Poverty &amp; the Environment issue includes article on prison-based gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New issue of Urban Habitat's journal includes an article about how Census Bureau’s miscount of incarcerated people distorts our democracy and impedes racial justice.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/13/rpe/</link>
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		<title>LATFOR implements law ending prison-based gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York task force has released population data to be used for state and local redistricting, which counts incarcerated people at their home addresses.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/06/ny-data/</link>
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		<title>Roanoke Times urges Virginia to &#8220;move in the right direction&#8221; towards ending prison-based gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Roanoke Times (VA) editorial calls on the Virginia legislature to take a stand against prison-based gerrymandering by passing H.B. 13]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/06/roanoke-times/</link>
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		<title>Interactive redistricting software adjusts Census data for New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interactive redistricting tools use our analysis of Census data to adjust redistricting population in New York.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2012/01/04/interactive/</link>
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		<title>Virginia counties may be given more choices in avoiding prison-based gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News and Advance reports more counties in Virginia will be given option to avoid prison-based gerrymandering if Delegate Ingram's bill passes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2011/12/30/va-counties/</link>
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		<title>Local governments still struggling with Census&#8217; prison counts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In redistricting, local governments struggle with Census treating prison populations as residents of the prison location.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2011/12/30/local-governments/</link>
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		<title>Federal Judges uphold Maryland law ending prison-based gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One judge calls our amici brief "particularly impressive and persuasive".]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2011/12/27/fletcher/</link>
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		<title>New York Times: Prisons and Redistricting editorial celebrates victory of New York law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times published a great editorial praising the New York Supreme Court's decision to uphold the law that ended prison-based gerrymandering.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2011/12/22/nyt-ed/</link>
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