Captive Constituents: Prison-Based Gerrymandering & the Distortion of Our Democracy
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 18, 2010
ANNOTATION: This report explains how counting inmates as citizens of the area the facility resides for the census, gerrymandering, “artificially inflates the population count—and thus, the political influence—of the districts where prison and jails are located [while it also]…reduces the political power of everyone else” (p.2). Topics covered by this report include: prisoners are not constituents of the district where they are incarcerated; prisoners remain members of their home communities; gerrymandering undermines democracy; minority vote dilution; massive electoral consequences; fixing the problem; and frequently asked questions.
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