{"id":2187,"date":"2011-03-16T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2011-07-13T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T17:41:42","slug":"wi-fact-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/03\/16\/wi-fact-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin fact sheets updated for coming redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin has some new prison-based gerrymandering problems to contend with in its upcoming redistricting effort.  We updated our <a href=\"\/wisconsin.html#fact\">fact sheets<\/a> on <a href=\"\/wisconsin.html\">Wisconsin<\/a> to highlight current and upcoming potential problems.<\/p>\n<p>A new prison can create potential problems that a county may not yet be aware of. For example, the Census Bureau just counted 1025 people incarcerated at the New Lisbon Correctional Institution as residents of New Lisbon in <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/Juneau_County_WI.pdf\">Juneau County<\/a>. The county is about to redraw its 21 County Board of Supervisors districts, so that each district contains about 1,270 people.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">Unless the Juneau County Board decides to reject the Census Bureau\u2019s  prison count, the district that includes the New Lisbon Correctional Institution would be 80% prisoners.<\/span> Every resident near the prison would be given as much say over the future of the county as 5 residents in every other district. Giving a small group of people 5 times as much political power as other residents because they happen to have a prison nearby isn\u2019t just unfair; it violates state and federal law.<\/p>\n<p>This redistricting cycle also provides a great opportunity for counties with existing prison-based district distortions to ensure exclude prison populations and ensure that for the coming decade, everyone has an equal say in county government, whether they live next to a prison or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fact sheets about prison-based gerrymandering in Wisconsin&#8217;s upcoming redistricting efforts.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}