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"What is Prison -Based Gerrymandering" --A film version to premier Oct. 15, 2010

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

What Is Prison-Based Gerrymandering? By Jeff Reichert Writer and Director of the documentary film Gerrymandering September 3, 2010 11:24 AM (go to this URL for a trailer of the movie: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-reichert/what-is-prisonbased-gerry_b_704847.html) The issue of prison-based gerrymandering has gotten a lot of ink lately around the country, so to better explain it for a wider audience, I thought I'd open up this space to one of my favorite people I met during the making of Gerrymandering: Peter Wagner of the Prison Policy Initiative. Peter's been almost single-handedly beating the drum on this issue for a few years now, and has scored a number of significant legislative successes thus far in his fight. I won't be surprised if we look back a few years from now and find that he's fixed this problem in every state across the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 04, 2010 (boomark / email).