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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Change.org on prison-based gerrymandering

Two great pieces today on Change.org about our prison-based gerrymandering work in Maryland and Rhode Island.

by Peter Wagner, April 14, 2010

Two great pieces today on Change.org about our prison-based gerrymandering work in Maryland and Rhode Island:

  • Maryland’s Big Step on Prison Census Reform, by Matt Kelley, April 14, 2010
  • The Case of Cranston’s Phantom Prison Constituents, by Te-Ping Chen April 14, 2010

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  3. Person’s home does not change with incarceration +

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