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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Minnesota Post article on our new report

by Peter Wagner, March 9, 2010

Casey Selix writes about our new report, Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Minnesota in the Minnesota Post: Prison-policy study shows how inmate counts yield redistricting clout.

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  1. Minnesota Post on prison-based gerrymandering +
  2. Census Bureau counts Minnesota’s incarcerated population in the wrong place; access to democracy distorted +
  3. Minnesota Redistricting Panel must address prison-based gerrymandering, experts say +

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