{"id":922,"date":"2010-03-08T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T15:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=922"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:13:11","slug":"md_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/03\/08\/md_report\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison-based gerrymandering in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/marylandhouse2000.png\" alt=\"map of state districts with large prisons\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"right\"  \/> Avi Cummings and I have finished <a href=\"\/md\/report.html\">Importing Constituents: Incarcerated People and Political Clout in Maryland<\/a>, our district-by-district analysis of how crediting Baltimore City&#8217;s incarcerated residents to remote districts distorts democracy and dilutes the votes of all voters in all other districts.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also released two fact sheets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/factsheets\/md\/africanamericans.pdf\">Ending prison-based gerrymandering would aid the African-American vote in Maryland<\/a> [PDF] by Prison Policy Initiative<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/factsheets\/md\/adjusting.pdf\">States are Authorized to Adjust Census Data to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering, and Many Already Do<\/a> [PDF] by Prison Policy Initiative and Demos <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and created a new page for the <a href=\"\/maryland.html\">Maryland campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New report and resources on prison-based gerrymandering in Maryland <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}