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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Calif. Governor signs bill to improve law ending prison-based gerrymandering

by Aleks Kajstura, September 14, 2012

The governor of California just signed a bill (AB 1986) into law that improves California’s historic law ending prison based gerrymandering.

The LA Times has some coverage of the new bill along with some of the other bills signed.

Related briefings:

  1. Calif. bill to improve law ending prison-based gerrymandering awaits governor’s signature +
  2. Calif. Assembly passes bill to improve law ending prison-based gerrymandering +
  3. New Jersey Governor signs bill ending prison gerrymandering +

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