{"id":6330,"date":"2012-08-27T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2012-08-29T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:13:07","slug":"momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2012\/08\/27\/momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"New map shows building momentum for ending prison-based gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve produced a new map showing the strong and growing national consensus that prison-based gerrymandering must end:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/atlas\/momentum.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/momentum.jpg\" alt=\"Map showing the growing national momentum to end prison-based gerrymandering, including actions by state and local governments\" width=\"590\" height=\"344\" class=\"\"  \/> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For more information about individual places on the map, see our campaign pages for <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/california.html\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/connecticut.html\">Connecticut<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/de.html\">Delaware<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/illinois.html\">Illinois<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/massachusetts.html\">Massachusetts<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/maryland.html\">Maryland<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/mn\/\">Minnesota<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/newjersey.html\">New Jersey<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/newyork.html\">New York<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/ri.html\">Rhode Island<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/oregon.html\">Oregon<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/wisconsin.html\">Wisconsin<\/a> and our <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/legislation.html\">legislation page<\/a> for additional information on previous legislation in <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/legislation.html\">Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana and Texas<\/a>. Also see our articles about the laws in <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/09\/26\/michigan-laws\/\">Michigan<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2004\/11\/01\/state-officials\/\">Colorado<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/va-law\/\">Virginia<\/a> that require or encourage local governments to avoid prison-based gerrymandering.\n<\/p>\n<p>As of today, we know of 143 individual <a href=\"\/local\/\">county and municipal governments<\/a> <a href=\"\/local\/\">known to have excluded prison populations<\/a> when redistricting.<\/p>\n<p>The copy of this map at <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/atlas\/momentum.html\">http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/atlas\/momentum.html<\/a> will be updated as new bills are introduced and passed and as our research confirms additional counties and municipalities that avoided prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New map shows the growing national movement to reject the Census Bureau&#8217;s prison miscount and to end prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","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=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}