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Impact on democracy at the state level
As of March 2010, we've analyzed eighteen states, district by district, to determine the problems caused by the Census Bureau's method of counting people in prison:
- Arizona
- Illinois
- Idaho
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
Research in other states is ongoing. While full district analyses are not yet available, we have written about the flow of prisoners from urban to rural areas in three additional states:
Also available is information about how redistricting works and why counting less than 1% of the U.S. population in the wrong place has such a significant effect:
- Redistricting Matters: Small changes in the boundary lines mean huge electoral effects uses some simple illustrations to demonstrate why redistricting matters.
- Hanging in the balance? is about New York State Senate district 34, a Westchester county district that uses Bronx county residents to meet population requirements, against the dictates of the New York state constitution.
- How prisons alter the one-person one-vote principle uses a New York district to show how including prison populations changes the shape of prison districts.
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Speaking engagements
- March 14, 2010: Peter Wagner will be talking about prison-based gerrymandering on WVKR 91.3FM (Poughkeepsie NY) at 3:30pm.
- March 16, 2010: We'll be doing a briefing about prison-based gerrymandering in New York by conference call at 11am EST. Join us. More info.
- March 24, 2010: We'll be doing a National briefing about prison-based gerrymandering by conference call at 11am EST. Join us. More info.
- March 25-28, 2010: Peter Wagner will be attending the National Redistricting Seminar in Austin, Texas organized by the National Conference of State Legislatures
- April 1, 2010: Peter Wagner will be speaking about the U.S. Census, mass-incarceration and prison-based gerrymandering at Smith College, Seeyle 206 in Northampton Mass at 6:30pm.
Not near you? Invite Peter to your town.
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