{"id":1374,"date":"2010-06-07T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:41:24","slug":"stilltime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/06\/07\/stilltime\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island activist says &#8220;Still time to pass the Residence of Those in Government Custody Act&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Reilly reports that the Rhode Island legislature is preparing to adjourn without voting  on bill #7833, <a href=\"http:\/\/webserver.rilin.state.ri.us\/BillText10\/HouseText10\/H7833.pdf\">Residence of those in Government Custody Act<\/a>, sponsored by Joe Almeida.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would count incarcerated people at home for redistricting purposes. <span class=\"pullquote\">If the state fails to act and draws legislative districts based on the Census Bureau&#8217;s 2010 prison counts, the state is likely to be home to the most dramatic example of state legislative  prison-based gerrymandering in the nation<\/span>. Rhode Island prisons are clustered in such a way that one legislative district will be about 30% incarcerated, giving every 7 people in one portion of Cranston as much influence as 10 people in any other part of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce says that the legislature&#8217;s leadership needs to hear from you that ending prison-based gerrymandering is a priority. More info and contact information is in his blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island can make history, and join the state of <a href=\"\/news\/2010\/04\/13\/maryland_law\/\">Maryland<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/news\/2010\/06\/02\/delaware-house\/\">Delaware House of Representatives<\/a> in passing legislation to end prison-based gerrymandering, or it can do nothing and make an entirely different kind of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island is about to make history; but will it be positive or negative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","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=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}