by Aleks Kajstura, September 14, 2012
The governor of California just signed a bill (AB 1986) into law that improves California’s historic law ending prison based gerrymandering.
The LA Times has some coverage of the new bill along with some of the other bills signed.
Learn more about the organization behind the Prison Gerrymandering Project.
The transfer of Black and Latino incarcerated people to communities very different than their own is a nationwide problem.
Pam Adams explains how in her downstate Illinois column.
We explain that prison gerrymandering is bad for democracy but federal & state aid are not impacted.
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