{"id":1132,"date":"2010-04-23T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2010-04-23T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:16:54","slug":"bennettcolumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/04\/23\/bennettcolumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Terre Haute, Indiana columnist says city should consider modifying Census Bureau&#8217;s prison count data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bennett writes in the Terre Haute Indiana <i>Tribune Star<\/i> on April 15: <a href=\"http:\/\/tribstar.com\/opinion\/x993499433\/MARK-BENNETT-Does-counting-inmates-in-council-districts-skew-representation-Policy-group-says-yes\">Does counting inmates in council districts skew representation? Policy group says yes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Bennett explains the One Person One Vote problem created by padding one City Council ward with a large and growing federal prison complex, and interviews the city councilor from that district who says he wouldn&#8217;t oppose change.<\/p>\n<p>The final paragraphs of the column:<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">\u201cIf the town wants to give everyone the same influence over city affairs, they need to give everyone in the city the same access to government,\u201d Wagner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"> The city should consider Wagner\u2019s point before drawing those lines&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\">This column reflects a new stage in a years-long debate in Terre Haute.  I wrote letters to the editor in <a href=\"\/news\/2009\/09\/30\/bennett\/\">July 2009<\/a> and <a href=\"\/news\/2006\/03\/28\/hurt\/\">March 2006<\/a>. With city council redistricting almost upon us, the timing is right for reform. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting inmates in council districts skews representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","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=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}