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"Prisons, Redistricting and the Census"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new editorial in the New York Times.  Here are excerpts: The Census Bureau struck a blow for electoral fairness recently when it decided to speed up publication of its data on prison populations to ensure it is available for the next round of redistricting. We hope this new data, which will be released in the spring of 2011, will bolster the efforts of reformers who are trying to end prison-based gerrymandering ? the cynical practice of drawing legislative districts with populations inflated by inmates who do not have the right to vote and whose actual residences are often far away. Far too often, redistricting committees pad underpopulated districts by redrawing boundaries to include large prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).