{"id":2737,"date":"2011-07-11T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T20:18:51","slug":"times-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/07\/11\/times-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Some New York Lawmakers Want to Ignore Redistricting Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/opinion\/article\/What-happened-to-the-promise-1459661.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:-2px 3px 3px 3px\" src=\"\/images\/newsthumbs\/times_union_07_10_2011_thumbnail_250w.gif\" alt=\"thumbnail of article\" width=\"250\" height=\"291\" class=\"reportcover right\"  \/><\/a>The <i>Albany Times Union<\/i> has had enough of unfair redistricting in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the <i>Times Union<\/i> published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/opinion\/article\/What-happened-to-the-promise-1459661.php\">editorial<\/a> that criticizes the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR)&#8217;s decision to count incarcerated populations in the wrong place during the redistricting process:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[I]f there was any pretense left that [redistricting] was going to be an honest process, the task force threw it away in declaring that it will ignore a law requiring state prison inmates to be counted for redistricting purposes where their homes are, not where they&#8217;re incarcerated and have no representative to speak of.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some lawmakers <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/little\/\">have sued<\/a> to bring prison-based gerrymandering back to New York, but the <i>Times Union<\/i> points out that the task force needs to follow New York&#8217;s <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/NYS_A9710-D.html\">enacted law<\/a> that requires incarcerated people to be counted at home, not in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albany Times Union published an editorial criticizing LATFOR for ignoring law to end prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}