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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Maryland Incarceration Rates by County, 2002

Maryland Incarceration Rates by County, 2002
County of conviction In state prison, 2002 Incarceration rate per 100,000 population, 2002
Allegany 180 244
Anne Arundel 614 122
Baltimore City 15,626 2,434
Baltimore County 1,927 251
Calvert 110 137
Caroline 85 282
Carroll 158 100
Cecil 135 150
Charles 400 313
Dorchester 133 437
Frederick 249 119
Garrett 39 131
Harford 533 235
Howard 124 48
Kent 83 426
Montgomery 388 43
Prince George's 915 111
Queen Anne's 95 223
Somerset 81 319
St. Mary's 95 106
Talbot 91 265
Washington 523 389
Wicomico 425 495
Worcester 137 284


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