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Local governments that exclude prison populations

Last update: January 19, 2010

This page accepts reader submissions about local governments that excluded prison populations in their various districting arrangements. As this material is very difficult to collect, please send in any communities that should be on the list. For why this matters, see this article about small Ohio cities with large prison populations that fail to disregard the prison population when redistricting Legislative districts belong to the people, not the politicians

States that require local governmental bodies to exclude prison populations from their local districting

States that encourage local governmental bodies to exclude prison populations from their local districting

Select counties, cities and towns that choose to exclude prison populations from local redistricting

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