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Maryland enacts law to count incarcerated people at their home addresses

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Maryland enacts law to count incarcerated people at their home addresses First-in-nation law will improve fairness and accuracy of the Census data used for redistricting April 13, 2010 - Today, Governor Martin O'Malley signed into law a bill ensuring that incarcerated persons will be counted as residents of their home addresses when new state and local legislative districts are drawn in Maryland. The U.S. Census counts incarcerated people as residents of the prison location. When state and local government bodies use Census counts to draw legislative districts, they unintentionally enhance the weight of a vote cast in districts that contain prisons at the expense of all other districts in the state. Maryland is the first state to pledge to collect the home addresses of incarcerated people and correct the data state-wide...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).