{"id":7470,"date":"2013-10-22T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2013-10-22T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:07:23","slug":"ma-resolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/ma-resolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. legislature one step closer to urging Census Bureau to end prison gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts resolution (<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/Senate\/S309\">S309<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/House\/H3185\">H3185<\/a>) urging the Census Bureau to end prison gerrymandering by counting incarcerated people at their home addresses <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/Senate\/S309\/History\">just passed<\/a> out of the Joint Committee on Election Laws. In March, the Prison Policy Initiative joined other supporters to <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/03\/28\/ma-resolution-hearing\/\">testify<\/a> before the committee in support of <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/03\/01\/ma-resolution\/\">the resolution<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/188\/Senate\/S309\/History\">now heads<\/a> to the Joint Committee on Rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Resolution S 309\/H 3185 passed joint House and Senate Election Laws committee, moves on to the committee on Rules.<\/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":[30],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}