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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Prison-based gerrymandering report highlighted by ACS blog

LDF issues new report on prison-based gerrymandering.

by Aleks Kajstura, June 10, 2010

Dale Ho, of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) writes about the LDF’s new prison-based gerrymandering report on the American Constitution Society (ACS )blog. The piece explains that prison-based gerrymandering “undermines the integrity of our political process.”

Related briefings:

  1. Report on prison-based gerrymandering in Illinois released +
  2. Blog roundup: Fighting prison gerrymandering in Cranston, RI +
  3. Minnesota Post article on our new report +

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