{"id":7831,"date":"2014-06-10T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:25:42","slug":"lwv-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2014\/06\/10\/lwv-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Women Voters tackles prison gerrymandering at Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYesterday I had the pleasure of joining three League of Women Voters members (from <a href=\"\/news\/2014\/03\/04\/lwv-va-letter\/\">Virginia<\/a>, <a href=\"\/de.html#lead\">Delaware<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvc.org\/\">California<\/a>) and the Census Bureau&#8217;s redistricting data chief, <a href=\"web.archive.org\/web\/20111022050412\/http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/bios\/cathy_mccully.html\">Cathy McCully<\/a>, on a caucus panel to talk about prison gerrymandering at the League of Women Voters&#8217; 2014 Convention.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOur panel on prison gerrymandering covered the <a href=\"\/impact.html\">scope of the issue<\/a> across the U.S., <a href=\"\/legislation.html\">legislative<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/cases.html\">litigation<\/a> efforts seeking to end prison gerrymandering, as well as the Census Bureau&#8217;s perspective on the problem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI also used the panel as an opportunity to debut PPI&#8217;s new<a href=\"\/factsheets\/national\/NationalBriefingPacket.pdf\"> briefing packet on prison gerrymandering<\/a>, check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League of Women Voters 2014 Convention included a panel on prison gerrymandering, PPI released new briefing packet.<\/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-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","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=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}