{"id":1588,"date":"2010-08-09T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2021-11-17T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T21:24:43","slug":"beyond_pbg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/beyond_pbg\/","title":{"rendered":"New York: beyond prison-based gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ending prison-based gerrymandering means a return to the concept that representatives should represent those actually part of their communities: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101202195611\/http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/cell_count_prison_gerrymandering_and_voting_representation.html\">New York Ends Prison Gerrymandering<\/a>, by Michelle Chen, <i>ColorLines<\/i>.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Efforts to draw fair districts in New York State go beyond ending prison-based gerrymandering: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100808\/OPINION\/8080318\/-1\/SITEMAP\">Balance of power changing in NY<\/a>, <i>Times Herald-Record<\/i> editorial (Orange County, NY).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Making sure that those who area allowed to vote know that they can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/news\/LoHud_8_8_10.pdf\">Reforms are boost for representative government<\/a>, by Erika Wood, <i>The Journal News\/LoHud<\/i>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a Pennsylvania paper proposes that the state should follow New York&#8217;s example and aim for a standard of &#8220;one person, one vote&#8221;: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/news\/Daily_Review_Towanda_PA_August_7_2010.pdf\">Prison-based gerrymandering should be abolished<\/a>, <i>The Daily Review<\/i> editorial, (Towanda, PA). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending prison-based gerrymandering means a return to the concept that representatives should represent those actually part of their communities: New York Ends Prison Gerrymandering, by Michelle Chen, ColorLines. Efforts to draw fair districts in New York State go beyond ending prison-based gerrymandering: Balance of power changing in NY, Times Herald-Record editorial (Orange County, NY). Making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9849,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/9849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}