{"id":7865,"date":"2014-06-23T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2014-09-25T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T22:18:13","slug":"rome-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2014\/06\/23\/rome-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting equality still up for debate in Rome, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 3 years after New York counties and cities were <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/08\/03\/ny_law\/\">prohibited from engaging in prison gerrymandering<\/a>, and prison-adjusted redistricting data was made available, the city of Rome is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/article\/20140611\/NEWS\/140619798\">still stalling on redistricting<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/07\/08\/rome-2\/\">city continues to rely on wards that are padded with incarcerated populations<\/a>, including people that were incarcerated at the now-closed Oneida Correctional Facility. Redistricting will be on the council&#8217;s agenda once again this week, but they&#8217;re holding out on implementing any potential plan until 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s a long time to wait for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, NY still has not redistricted after the 2010 Census, city fails to implement NY&#8217;s law to end prison gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","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=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}