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New York Times editorial. A Proper Count of Inmates

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New York Times editorial A Proper Count of Inmates Published: March 23, 2010 The Census Bureau took an important first step toward electoral fairness when it announced that it would publish data on prison populations earlier than in the past, in time for the next round of legislative redistricting. This data, which will become available in the spring of 2011, will make it easy for state lawmakers to draw honest legislative districts made up of real residents instead of falsely inflated districts made up partly of prison inmates whose homes are often far away. The early data will be welcome in states and localities that want to put an end to prison-based gerrymandering. But the real solution is for the Census Bureau to begin counting inmates at their homes instead of counting them as ?residents? of their prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).