Help End Prison Gerrymandering Prison gerrymandering funnels political power away from urban communities to legislators who have prisons in their (often white, rural) districts. More than two decades ago, the Prison Policy Initiative put numbers on the problem and sparked the movement to end prison gerrymandering.

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Nation Cities Weekly: Big stakes in prison count

by Peter Wagner, March 13, 2010

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Neal Peirce has this column in Nation Cities Weekly published by the National League of Cities: How the Census Counts Prisoners: Significant Political Stakes [PDF, page 2].

Related briefings:

  1. American Prospect, Boise Weekly coverage +
  2. 200+ communities around the nation reject prison-based gerrymandering +
  3. Concern for prisoner-count based skew of democracy dates back to at least 1963 +

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