{"id":14,"date":"2003-08-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-07-15T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T17:00:06","slug":"not-by-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2003\/08\/25\/not-by-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Residents&#8221; not by choice but by Census policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"quote\">Almost 30 percent of new residents who came to Upstate New York in the 1990s didn&#8217;t make the trip by choice, and they didn&#8217;t move into subdivisions or houses on secluded cul-de-sacs. They were inmates making their new homes in prison cells, according to a new report on population trends in upstate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8211;Gannet News Service, August 24, 2003<\/p>\n<p>That was perhaps the most striking statistic in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/Files\/rc\/reports\/2003\/08demographics_pendall\/200308_Pendall.pdf\">report<\/a>  by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/\">Brookings Institution<\/a> documenting the stagnation of much of upstate, which grew in population just 1.1 percent in the &#8217;90s.<\/p>\n<p>Counting prisoners in their home community would avoid this type of confusion that skews Census statistics.<\/p>\n<p>See our <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/newyork.html\">New York maps<\/a> showing how counting urban prisoners as residents of rural prison towns undermines the accuracy and utilitity of Census data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 30 percent of new residents who came to Upstate New York in the 1990s didn&#8217;t make the trip by choice, and they didn&#8217;t move into subdivisions or houses on secluded cul-de-sacs. They were inmates making their new homes in prison cells, according to a new report on population trends in upstate. &#8211;Gannet News Service, [&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-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}