92% of New York’s prison cells are in disproportionately White Assembly districts

The Census Bureau counts incarcerated people as if they were residents not of their homes but of the prison’s location. When states like New York ignore their own constitutional requirement that incarceration does not change a residence and use Census data to draw legislative districts, the result is to transfer political power from high incarceration … Continue reading 92% of New York’s prison cells are in disproportionately White Assembly districts