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New Race, Poverty & the Environment issue includes article on prison-based gerrymandering

New issue of Urban Habitat's journal includes an article about how Census Bureau’s miscount of incarcerated people distorts our democracy and impedes racial justice.

by Leah Sakala, January 13, 2012

The newest issue of Race, Poverty & the Environment includes a “Geography of Race” section with an article I wrote on how the Census Bureau’s miscount of incarcerated people distorts our democracy and impedes racial justice. The Race, Poverty & the Environment journal is a project of Urban Habitat.

Related briefings:

  1. Ten years ago today, Tilove article put prison-based gerrymandering on the national map +
  2. New article from Northwestern University Law School demonstrates viability of state-based solution to federal failures in decennial census +
  3. Prison Populations a Big Issue for Census +

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