{"id":7696,"date":"2014-03-04T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:56:09","slug":"lwv-va-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2014\/03\/04\/lwv-va-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Women Voters of Virginia asks Census Bureau to end prison gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lwv-va.org\/\">League of Women Voters of Virginia<\/a> recently sent a letter to the Census Bureau, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/scans\/LWV_2014_letter_to_census_bureau.pdf\">calling on the Bureau to end prison gerrymandering<\/a> by counting incarcerated people as residents of their home addresses by the next Census.<\/p>\n<p>For more info check out the League&#8217;s newsletter article on<a href=\"http:\/\/lwv-va.org\/files\/lwvvavoter_feb14.pdf#page=8\">Virginia&#8217;s continuing struggles with prison gerrymandering<\/a>, and our page tracking the <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/virginia.html\">Virginia campaign to end prison gerrymandering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia League of Women Voters calls on the Census Bureau to count incarcerated people at home, end prison gerrymandering.<\/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-7696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696","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=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}