{"id":8570,"date":"2016-02-26T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=8570"},"modified":"2021-11-16T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T22:26:59","slug":"prison-gerrymandering-fight-gears-up-in-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2016\/02\/26\/prison-gerrymandering-fight-gears-up-in-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Gerrymandering fight gears up in New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBills to end prison gerrymandering have been introduced in Rhode Island (<a href=\"http:\/\/webserver.rilin.state.ri.us\/BillText\/BillText16\/HouseText16\/H7400.pdf\">H 7400<\/a>, introduced by Representatives Williams, Regunberg, Ajello, Costa, and Lombardi, and <a href=\"http:\/\/webserver.rilin.state.ri.us\/BillText\/BillText16\/SenateText16\/S2310.pdf\">S 2310<\/a>, introduced by Senators Metts, Crowley, Jabour, Pichardo, and Doyle). Similar <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2015\/03\/05\/risenate-s0239\/\">bills have passed the State&#8217;s Senate twice before<\/a>, maybe this will be the year that the issue of equal representation will earn the House&#8217;s support as well.\n<\/p>\n<p>And growing media attention to the issue in Connecticut &mdash; following a February 10 press conference sponsored by a growing coalition of activists &mdash; is adding urgency to the legislative agenda in the state, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctnewsjunkie.com\/archives\/entry\/coalition_calls_for_end_to_prison_gerrymandering\/\">poised to follow their neighbor soon<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMatt O&#8217;Brien and Susan Haigh of the Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160222154720\/http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/activists-prison-based-gerrymandering-dilutes-urban-power-37058314\">report on the legislative efforts in both states<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s quick and well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bills to end prison gerrymandering have been introduced in Rhode Island (H 7400, introduced by Representatives Williams, Regunberg, Ajello, Costa, and Lombardi, and S 2310, introduced by Senators Metts, Crowley, Jabour, Pichardo, and Doyle). Similar bills have passed the State&#8217;s Senate twice before, maybe this will be the year that the issue of equal representation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570","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=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9840,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions\/9840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}