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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Will you be at NCSL in San Antonio, Texas?

Brenda Wright of Demos and Peter Wagner of PPI will be at the NCSL Summit in TX on Aug 9-10, and are available to meet about avoiding prison-based gerrymandering.

by Peter Wagner, July 28, 2011

Brenda Wright of Demos and I will be attending the National Conference of State Legislatures Summit in San Antonio, Texas on August 9-10, 2011. If you will be there, too, and you want to set up a time to talk with us about how your state or local government can avoid prison-based gerrymandering, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Related briefings:

  1. Not everything is bigger in Texas: How rural Texas counties with large prisons maintain fairness in democracy +
  2. Texas Lawmakers Urge a Change in How Inmates are Counted +
  3. New York Times: “Playing the Inmate Card Skews Redistricting” in Texas +

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