{"id":8846,"date":"2016-07-22T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2016-07-22T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:04:07","slug":"comment_11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2016\/07\/22\/comment_11\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Center for Human Rights advises the Census Bureau \u201cto acknowledge the transient nature of mass incarceration\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past two weeks, we\u2019ve been highlighting the 2015 comment letters submitted to the Census Bureau in response to the federal register notice on Residence Rule and Residence Situations. Now that the Bureau has announced plans to continue counting incarcerated people as residents of prison locations, organizations and individuals have until August 1st to submit a new round of comments before the residence rules are finalized.<\/p>\n

The Southern Center for Human Rights recently submitted a comment letter<\/a> calling on the Census Bureau to \u201cacknowledge the transient nature of modern incarceration and to count incarcerated people as residents of their home address.\u201d <\/p>\n

This is an important point because \u201cthe Bureau has decided that other populations \u2013 deployed overseas military and juveniles staying in residential treatment centers \u2013 should be counted in their home location.\u201d The Southern Center explains that like overseas-deployed military personnel, incarcerated adults are unlikely to stay at one facility for long:<\/p>\n

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According to the Georgia Department of Corrections<\/a>, the average person in the state prison system has been transferred 4 times and the median time they spent at the current facility is just 9 months. The data makes it clear that most prison populations are transient.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When incarcerated people make up such a significant portion of Georgia\u2019s total population, \u201c[c]ounting them in the wrong place is not an error that can be overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incarcerated people in Georgia are unlikely to remain at any one facility for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}