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PA Report: Census Prisoner Count Dilutes Urban Political Clout

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

PA Report: Census Prisoner Count Dilutes Urban Political Clout The Legal Intelligencer By Amaris Elliott-Engel June 26, 2009 The voting power of Philadelphians is diluted on the state level because state and federal prisoners are counted by the U.S. Census Bureau where they are incarcerated, instead of the prisoners' home communities in which they lived before they were incarcerated, an advocacy group has concluded. Eight state House of Representatives districts would not meet federal "one-person, one-vote" standards if nonvoting state prisoners did not count as district residents for purposes of drawing up legislative districts, according to an analysis conducted by Prison Policy Initiative, an advocacy group based in Northampton, Mass. PPI is pushing for the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).