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 Rhode Island fact sheet

Aleks Kajstura and I release a new one page fact sheet about the problem, the law and the solution to prison-based gerrymandering in Rhode Island.

by Peter Wagner, June 8, 2010

Aleks Kajstura and I have prepared a new one page fact sheet about prison-based gerrymandering in Rhode Island that reviews the problem, the law and the solution. For more information on the movement against prison-based gerrymandering in that state, see our Rhode Island page.

Related briefings:

  1. New fact sheet about prison gerrymandering in Connecticut +
  2. “Beware, beware Rhode Island’s coming gerrymander” +
  3. Rhode Island organizations testify in support of bill ending prison gerrymandering +

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