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NY: GOP challenges changes in the way prisoners figure in drawing of state electoral districts

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Line drawn on prison head count debate GOP challenges changes in the way inmates figure in drawing of state electoral districts By JIMMY VIELKIND Capitol Bureau January 31, 2011 ALBANY -- Having retaken the Senate majority, Republicans are once again battling to have legislative district lines drawn with prison inmates counted in their jail cells -- not at their last-known addresses. Every Republican in the Legislature voted against the provision in question, called the Census Adjustment Act, which passed as part of a larger spending bill in August. It directs the state Department of Correctional Services to provide the joint legislative task force charged with drawing new district lines -- called LATFOR -- with the last known address for all 58,237 inmates in jail on April 1, 2010...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).