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'Where should inmates be counted for redistricting?

In August, the House Research Organization published a pro and con style article by Tom Howe titled "Where should inmates be counted for redistricting?" (pdf), from which I thought I'd excerpt a few choice tidbits:The Maryland, Delaware, and New York legislatures recently approved laws that, for redistricting purposes, will count inmates at their most recent permanent home addresses before they were incarcerated, rather than at the institution where they are housed. Maryland?s law, the first to be enacted, will assign inmates to their previous addresses for both U.S. congressional and state legislative redistricting. The Delaware and New York laws will apply only to state legislative redistricting. Counting inmates at their addresses prior to incarceration differs from the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).