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New York to correct miscount of incarcerated people New law caps decade-long effort to improve fairness and accuracy of data used for state and local redistricting

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New York to correct miscount of incarcerated people New law caps decade-long effort to improve fairness and accuracy of data used for state and local redistricting August 3, 2010 - Today, the New York State Senate passed legislation ensuring that incarcerated persons will be counted as residents of their home communities when state and local legislative districts are redrawn in New York next year. The measure, already passed by the Assembly, was included in the budget package that now awaits Governor Paterson's signature. The state legislature and some counties and municipalities have previously counted incarcerated people as residents of the prison location, inflating the local population counts used for legislative districts. Padding legislative districts with prison populations artificially enhances the weight of a vote cast in those districts at the expense of all districts that do not contain a prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).