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What Is Prison-Based Gerrymandering?

Jeff Reichert and I blog at Huffington Post about the making of the Gerrymandering film and put prison-based gerrymandering in context.

by Peter Wagner, September 7, 2010

Jeff Reichert, director of the documentary film Gerrymandering, and I have a blog post on the Huffington Post: What Is Prison-Based Gerrymandering?

We talk about the filming of the prison-based gerrymandering segment, and we put that segment in to the national context.

Related briefings:

  1. Prison-based gerrymandering on the big screen +
  2. Screening schedule for Gerrymandering film posted +
  3. Gerrymandering: the movie +

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