From: "Joyce Smith" <drjasmith@zoho.com>
Subject: Counting Inmates!
Date: July 7, 2015 at 12:16:02 PM EDT
To: <POP.2020.Residence.Rule@census.gov>
Cc: "JOYCE SMITH" <drjasmith@zoho.com>

Attention Karen Humes:
 
I am a senior citizen and witnessed the growth in the 1990’s of ten (10) new prisons built in ‘depressed areas’ of New York State, during a time when crime was actually going down!  Yes, it provided more jobs BUT ... WHAT IT’S ALSO DONE ... is given greater population numbers to (political) representatives in those districts ... thus the obvious imbalance of political clout!  Well over 95% of the number of inmates in those prisons did not come from those districts and therefore, those numbers should not be considered in any census count ... unless (perhaps) counted in the districts where they came from.  However, given the fact that once they’re released, they can’t vote anyway ... then just simply subtract their numbers from the district they’re housed at!  
 
Sincerely, Dr. Joyce Smith