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.
Can you help us continue the fight? Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
- An end to prison gerrymandering? Not in the 2030 Census by Aleks Kajstura, April 1, 2026
- Advocates warn Census Bureau of impending test failure, inaccurate counts of incarcerated people by Aleks Kajstura, March 5, 2026
- Prison gerrymandering skews representation, not funding formulas by Aleks Kajstura, December 9, 2025
- New resource: One-page guides to state-level prison gerrymandering by Aleks Kajstura, November 28, 2025
- Fourteen states ripe for prison gerrymandering reform by Aleks Kajstura, November 12, 2025
- Federal Census policy breaks Georgia’s democracy — state lawmakers can fix it by Aleks Kajstura, October 29, 2025
- Federal Census policy breaks Florida’s democracy — state lawmakers can fix it by Aleks Kajstura, October 15, 2025
- Federal Census policy breaks Texas’s democracy — state lawmakers can fix it by Aleks Kajstura, September 30, 2025
- Federal Census policy breaks Vermont’s democracy — state lawmakers can fix it by Aleks Kajstura, September 24, 2025
- Federal Census policy breaks Kentucky’s democracy — state lawmakers can fix it by Aleks Kajstura, August 27, 2025