{"id":2257,"date":"2011-03-29T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:49:52","slug":"wisconsin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/03\/29\/wisconsin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison-based gerrymandering threatens more Wisconsin governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More potential for prison-based gerrymandering problems was found in local governments across Wisconsin; fact sheets are now available for <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/Crawford_County_WI.pdf\">Crawford County<\/a> and the cities of <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Appleton_WI.pdf\">Appleton<\/a>, <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Kenosha_WI.pdf\">Kenosha<\/a>, <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_New_Lisbon_WI.pdf\">New Lisbon<\/a>, <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Prairie_du_Chien_WI.pdf\">Prairie du Chien<\/a>, <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Portage_WI.pdf\">Portage<\/a>, <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Racine_WI.pdf\">Racine<\/a>, <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Stanley_WI.pdf\">Stanley<\/a> and <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Waukesha_WI.pdf\">Waukesha<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cities of <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_Stanley_WI.pdf\">Stanley<\/a> and <a href=\"\/factsheets\/wi\/City_of_New_Lisbon_WI.pdf\">New Lisbon<\/a> are both facing the prospect of having an Aldermanic ward with no actual residents.  This problem is created because the population of the prisons located in the cities is larger than any one of their wards.  Our <a href=\"\/wisconsin.html\">Wisconsin campaign page<\/a> has more background on prison-based gerrymandering issues in Wisconsin and a complete list of <a href=\"\/wisconsin.html#fact\">fact sheets<\/a> available for the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities in Wisconsin face drawing districts with no actual residents, just prison population.  More Wis. fact sheets available.<\/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-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}