{"id":1062,"date":"2010-04-09T15:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2021-12-15T22:01:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T03:01:36","slug":"advocateprofile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/04\/09\/advocateprofile\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Advocate profiles our work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maureen Turner at The Valley Advocate<\/i> has written an excellent profile of our work: <\/p>\n

\"newsthumb\"Jail and the Census: A Change That Counts, Easthampton’s Prison Policy Initiative scores a victory for fair political representation<\/a><\/p>\n

I particularly liked how she explained the significance of the Census Bureau’s decision to publish prison counts earlier:<\/p>\n

That might not sound like much — a government agency releasing a relatively small amount of its collected data a little earlier than usual. But the consequences will be significant, making it easier for states to ensure that their legislative districts are fair representations of actual populations.<\/p>\n

And it wasn’t just those residents who were poorly served by the formula. Because the prisoners were not counted at the homes where they lived before their arrest — and where, it can be assumed, many would return upon their release — those communities also suffered, as their population count, for the purpose of distributing political representation, shrank.<\/p>\n

While in an ideal world, Wagner said, the Census would have made a much broader chang e– to counting prisoners at their previous home addresses — such a policy would have had to be created years ago to be ready for the 2010 count. The early release of data, while not a complete fix, is still a welcomed one, he said: “It will solve a lot of people’s problems, and there was still time to do it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Valley Advocate profiles our work on prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-shorts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","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=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9922,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/9922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}