{"id":1833,"date":"2010-10-14T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:48:05","slug":"movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/10\/14\/movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering: the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerrymandering is great!<\/p>\n

Gerrymandering<\/em>, the movie, that is. Jeff Reichert’s new documentary, Gerrymandering<\/em> has a segment on prison-based gerrymandering featuring the findings of the Prison Policy Initiative, and our Executive Director, Peter Wagner.\n<\/p>\n

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\nSome reviews from critics more impartial than us:\n<\/p>\n

\n“Riveting.” – Bob Mondello, NPR All Things Considered<\/p>\n

\n“An exceptionally entertaining film.” – Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine<\/p>\n

\n“Every American voter should see this.” – Paul Constant, The Stranger<\/p>\n

\n“****. If you care about the future of America, see this movie.” – Matt Thomas, NY Examiner<\/p>\n

\n“Cinematic – in the best way – all the way through.” – Howard Feinstein, Screen International<\/p>\n

\n“A film seemingly made for Jon Stewart’s ‘Restoring Sanity’ movement.” – Stan Hall, The Oregonian<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The once-obscure issue of prison-based gerrymandering has come a long way over the past decade. Gerrymandering<\/em>‘s coverage of prison-based gerrymandering even made it’s way into Moviefone’s musings<\/a> about the nature of documentaries!\n<\/p>\n

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In addition to one-time screenings, the movie is going to be officially openes in limited release tomorrow, October 15, 2010. We have a supplemental factsheet<\/a> [PDF] available for download, if you’re going to see the movie feel free to print some off and hand them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gerrymandering, the movie, is coming out in theaters. A whole segment is devoted to PPI\u2019s findings about prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-shorts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","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=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}