Help End Prison Gerrymandering Prison gerrymandering funnels political power away from urban communities to legislators who have prisons in their (often white, rural) districts. More than two decades ago, the Prison Policy Initiative put numbers on the problem and sparked the movement to end prison gerrymandering.

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New York prison-based gerrymandering bill

This is the bill text that passed as a technical amendment to part XX of the revenue budget A9710-D. Both this amendment and the full bill passed the Assembly on July 1, and the Senate on August 3. The Governor signed it on August 11, 2010.-Peter Wagner

 
 
  
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
            S. 8415                                                 A. 11597
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 29, 2010
                                       ___________
 
        IN  SENATE -- Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to reporting require-
          ments of the department of correctional services
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of
     2  section 71 of the correction law, as added by section 1 of part XX of  a
     3  chapter  of  the laws of 2010 amending the correction law and other laws
     4  relating to the collection of census data, as  proposed  in  legislative
     5  bill numbers S.6610-C and A.9710-D, is amended to read as follows:
     6    In  each  year  in  which the federal decennial census is taken but in
     7  which the United States bureau of the census does not implement a policy
     8  of reporting incarcerated persons  at  each  such  person's  residential
     9  address  prior to incarceration, the department of correctional services
    10  shall by [July] September first of that same year deliver to the  legis-
    11  lative  task  force  on  demographic  research  and  reapportionment the
    12  following information for each incarcerated person subject to the juris-
    13  diction of the department and located in this  state  on  the  date  for
    14  which the decennial census reports population:
    15    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    16  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2010 amending the correction law  and
    17  other  laws  relating  to  the collection of census data, as proposed in
    18  legislative bill numbers S.6610-C and A.9710-D, takes effect.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17951-02-0

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