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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American Prospect, Boise Weekly coverage

Brenda Wright of Demos has an editorial in American Prospect and Nathaniel Hoffman takes on prison-based gerrymandering in Idaho.

by Peter Wagner, March 31, 2010

There are two must read pieces today:

Related briefings:

  1. The Census and the Cell Block +
  2. Prison-based gerrymandering in The American Prospect +
  3. Nation Cities Weekly: Big stakes in prison count +

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