{"id":13,"date":"2003-08-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-10-25T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T19:45:08","slug":"correct-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2003\/08\/18\/correct-the-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution allows states to correct for Census misallocations of prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Constitution does not prohibit a state from adjusting the census data to count population as it wishes the prisoners to be counted: <\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;Although a state is entitled to the number of representatives in the House of Representatives as determined by the federal census, it is not required to use these census figures as a basis for apportioning its own legislature.  (Borough of Bethel Park v Stans, 449 F.2d 575 (3rd Cir. 1971)<\/p>\n<p>When the 2000 Census made mistakes and counted some prisons in empty fields or in the middle of the Hudson River, New York corrected its Census-based redistricting  data by &#8220;moving&#8221; the prisons back to their actual locations. A special state census of all residents would be one way to accurately count the population of prisoners at their legal residences. Alternatively, a state could adjust the federal Census data to transfer each prisoner&#8217;s Census count from the prison town to his or her legal residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Constitution does not prohibit a state from adjusting the census data to count population as it wishes the prisoners to be counted: &#8220;Although a state is entitled to the number of representatives in the House of Representatives as determined by the federal census, it is not required to use these census figures as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}