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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Solutions pages updated

All the ways to end prison-based gerrymandering are spread across a handful of clicks.

by Peter Wagner, December 20, 2010

We’ve updated and reorganized our pages about the solutions to prison-based gerrymandering, including the legislation page with model, passed and proposed state and county legislation, and a technical memo about Using the Census Bureau’s Advanced Group Quarters Table.

Related briefings:

  1. Model bills updated +
  2. Tools for using the Advance Group Quarters Summary File +
  3. Advance Group Quarters Table coming soon +

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