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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Where should inmates be counted for redistricting?

The Texas House Research Organization has a lengthy article that cites a lot of our Texas research on prison-based gerrymandering.

by Peter Wagner, August 26, 2010

Tom Howe has has a lengthy article Where should inmates be counted for redistricting? in the Texas House Research Organizations’ Interim News.

The article cites a lot of our research, including:

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