{"id":100,"date":"2004-10-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:13:33","slug":"actual-constituents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2004\/10\/25\/actual-constituents\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and prisoners: Census should not count them the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Census Bureau currently counts college students and prisoners the same way: as residents of the town in which they sleep. This makes sense for students, because they are a part of the surrounding college community, but prisoners have no such ties. The below table from my <a href=\"\/students\/\">Actual Constituents: Students and Political Clout in New York<\/a> report compares how students interact with the surrounding community with how prisoners do not.  <\/p>\n<table class=\"findings\">\n<tr>\n<th class=\"empty\"><\/th>\n<th>Students<\/th>\n<th>Prisoners<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>In college\/prison town by choice<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Has control over whether to transfer to another institution<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Can vote<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>In 48 states, No (only in Maine and Vermont)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>By Supreme Court precedent, can vote locally<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Encouraged to leave the institution to spend money locally<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Has interactions with surrounding community<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Is welcome to stay in local community upon graduation\/release<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Odds of returning to pre-college or pre-prison address after graduation\/release<\/td>\n<td>Low<\/td>\n<td>High<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"cite\">Notes: <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/students\/\">Actual Constituents: Students and Political Clout in New York<\/a> explains how state legislative districts are drawn, why they are drawn to contain equal numbers of people, why it makes good sense to include students at their college addresses as a part of legislative districts, and why students should be welcomed at the polls. For more contrasts between students and prisoners, see also the analysis in the Brennan Center&#8217;s report: <a href=\"http:\/\/brennan.3cdn.net\/c81dbb2c77b9439d8f_ylm6bxclw.pdf\">One Size Does  Not Fit All: Why the Census Bureau  Should Change the Way  It Counts Prisoners<\/a> [PDF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Census Bureau currently counts college students and prisoners the same way: as residents of the town in which they sleep. This makes sense for students, because they are a part of the surrounding college community, but prisoners have no such ties. The below table from my Actual Constituents: Students and Political Clout in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9180,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}