{"id":2567,"date":"2011-05-23T10:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:12:09","slug":"justin-levitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/justin-levitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Levitt explains prison-based gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered video of a presentation that Justin Levitt made at the <i>Redrawing the Boundaries: A Midwest Redistricting Discussion<\/i> in Chicago in October 2009. He explains the problem of prison-based gerrymandering and then leads a detailed discussion with advocates about the strategy and rationale for reform. Although dated, it&#8217;s worth watching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0\">Questions include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>How are incarcerated people counted?<\/li>\n<li>How are college students and the military counted?<\/li>\n<li>Is there any data on how many prisoners&#8211;during the census period&#8211;return to their home communities, and as a consequence should be counted in their home communities?<\/li>\n<li>If a state government elects to alter its prison count, when does that take place?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the incentive for someone who benefits from a prison population to demand a census recount?<\/li>\n<li>What are the primary effects of counting incarcerated people where they are incarcerated?<\/li>\n<li>Does counting incarcerated people differ when it comes to congressional districts&#8211;versus state and local districts?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/7322737?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more with Justin Levitt, see my podcast <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/05\/20\/podcast1\/\">&#8220;Address Unknown&#8221; Podcast Episode #1<\/a> where we discuss the optimal way to structure a bill to eliminate prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Levitt leads a discussion about the strategy and rationale of ending prison-based gerrymandering with advocates at the Redrawing the Boundaries: A Midwest Redistricting Discussion in October 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","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=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9019,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/9019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}