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THREE TIMELY ACTIONS THAT COULD HELP END PRISON-BASED GERRYMANDERING

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

THREE TIMELY ACTIONS THAT COULD HELP END PRISON-BASED GERRYMANDERING by Peter Wagner, December 12, 2008 The next Census will be taken 14 months after our next President is sworn in. Counting the entire population, just once and in the right place, is an incredibly complex undertaking with profound implications for American democracy. It must be done right. The Census is so important, the framers of the Constitution required it in the opening paragraphs. The data collected in April 2010 will form the basis of federal, state and local legislative districts for the next decade. But a long standing flaw in the Census undermines the basic democratic principle of one person one vote. The Census Bureau counts people in prison as residents of the prison's town, not their home addresses...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).