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The Prison Policy Initiative works to keep prisons from influencing elections

Since 2001, the Prison Policy Initiative has worked to expose and fix a once obscure Census Bureau glitch that undermines our democracy.The Census Bureau counts people in prison as if they were residents of the communities where they are incarcerated, even though they remain legal residents of the places they lived prior to incarceration. As Census data is used to apportion political power at all levels of government, crediting thousands of disproportionately urban and minority men to other communities has staggering implications for modern American democracy.graphic showing that many New York City residents are credited to upstate prisons In New York State, for example, one out of every three people who moved to upstate New York in the 1990s actually "moved" into a newly constructed prison. The State bars people in prison from voting, but their presence in the Census boosts the population of the upstate districts whose legislators favor prison expansion. Without this phantom population, 7 upstate New York State Senate districts would not meet minimum population requirements and would have to be redrawn. Our 2002 report, Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in New York was the first district-by-district analysis of the impact of the prison miscount on state legislative redistricting and the first to suggest workable policy solutions.In the years since, we've extended our New York research to examine how inaccurate Census data has caused democratic distortion in more than 11 states and 200 counties.

Prison Policy Initiative accomplishments

Our research and advocacy have made the prisoner miscount the central controversy of the 2010 Census. Our work has: been endorsed by the New York Times editorial board in 9 editorials. led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to suggest that New York's practice of drawing legislative districts based on the Census data violates the Voting Rights Act. won the endorsement of the Census Bureau's technical advisors at the National Research Council of the National Academies. inspired state legislators in New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois to draft reform legislation. launched a grassroots campaign with federal, state and local elected officials, democracy advocates and criminal justice reformers to change how the U.S. Census counts people in prison.

New report: Phantom Constituents in Tennessee's Boards of County Commissioners

By Peter Wagner and JooHye DellaRoccoFebruary 21, 2008Press releaseReport

International committee urged to scrutinize U.S. Census practices that dilute vote of minority populations

thumbnail image of the shadow report to the CERD committee NEW YORK, Dec. 13 -- The United States Census practice of counting prisoners in their districts of incarceration rather than their home districts for the purpose of establishing electoral and Congressional representation is a violation of international treaty. This month, the non-partisan public policy and advocacy centers Demos and the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) submitted their analysis to the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva.Demos and PPI urged the committee to scrutinize the racially discriminatory redistricting practice of crediting rural white counties with additional population based on the presence of disenfranchised prisoners in violation of Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Demos/PPI comments were included in a larger submission [PDF] prepared by the U.S. Human Rights Network.The United States ratified the CERD treaty in 1994, and therefore is bound under international law to work to eliminate policies that are intentionally or unintentionally racially discriminatory. The CERD treaty obligates each country to report every two years on its progress at eliminating racial discrimination. The United States submitted its report [PDF] in April and will be questioned by the CERD Committee in Geneva in March 2008. The Committee looks to individuals and organizations in each county to critique the reporting counties report and to highlight omissions.See the press release, the text of the Census/redistricting section or the entire prison submission.

National Letter-Writing Campaign Launched to Urge Census Bureau to Change How People in Prison are Counted

thumbnail image of the Schneiderman/Cobb letter October 18 -- New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman, St. Lawrence County Legislator Tedra Cobb and federal, state and county legislators in New York, Illinois and Texas have called on the United States Census Bureau to begin counting prisoners in their home communities, rather than where they are incarcerated. The elected officials and criminal justice and democracy advocates also announced the beginning of a national letter-writing campaign by local elected officials in New York and around the country to urge a change in this policy.Read the press release from the campaign launch, the Schneiderman/Cobb letter to the Census Bureau and learn how you can get involved in organizing your elected officials to join this campaign.

New report details how Census counts of prison populations burden New York counties

new york counties report coverThe federal Census counts state and federal prisoners as part of the local population, and that creates big problems for county government, charges a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative. The report explains that the Census Bureau wants New York county governments to use its data but counts prisoners as residents of the prison location, which violates the New York State Constitution. Counting prisoners as residents, despite the fact that they can't vote or participate in the communities where they are incarcerated, leads to unequal distributions of political power.The report, Phantom constituents in the Empire State: How outdated Census Bureau methodology burdens New York counties, examines how New York City and the 30 New York counties with prisons handle the flawed data, commending 13 counties that adjust the census to prevent equal representation from being damaged. The report is the first to analyze local governments' response to the inaccurate Census data and to measure the dilution of voting power within each county in the state.

New York Times editorial calls for Census Bureau to change how it counts prisoners

new york times editorial thumbnailOn January 17, The New York Times editorial board called for the 2010 Census to include a test run at counting the nation's 1.4 million prison inmates at their permanent addresses instead of in prisons. The change, says the editorial, "would help bring an end to a corrosive but little known practice that distorts the political process in virtually every corner of the country.Inmates are denied the right to vote in all but two states. But state lawmakers treat them as residents of the prisons when drawing legislative maps, to inflate the head count in lightly populated rural areas where prisons are typically built. This creates legislative districts where none would ordinarily be, shifting political influence from the heavily populated urban districts where inmates live.While calling for the Census Bureau to start figuring out the best way to count people in prison at their home addresses, the New York Times also endorsed an important interim proposal. If the Census Bureau published detailed counts of the prison populations alongside the redistricting data, states and counties could choose to subtract the prisoners when drawing districts.This proposal was raised in our February 2006 submission to the Census Bureau, Why the Census Bureau can and must start collecting the home addresses of incarcerated people report and was a recommendation of the National Research Council in a report commissioned by the Census Bureau and released in September.The New York Times editorial concluded:The Census Bureau has a crucial role to play in putting and end to this despicable practice. The 2010 census is as good a time as any to get started.

National Academies cites our research, calls for Census Bureau to collect alternative addresses for people in prison

national academies report thumbnailFinding that "the evidence of political inequities in redistricting that can arise due to the counting of prisoners at the prison location is compelling", the National Research Council of the National Academies has called for the Census Bureau to begin collecting the home addresses of people in prison and to study whether this alternative address should be used in the Census. The report, authored by leading demographers, statisticians and sociologists, was commissioned by the Census Bureau to reexamine where people should be counted in the Census.The Prison Policy Initiative submitted oral and written testimony to the panel in 2005 and 2006.

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Census Bureau should use forms, not administrative records, to count people in prison Jun. 25, 2008 Legislators ask Census Bureau to change prison count May. 28, 2008 Prisons Warp Vote Jan. 8, 2008 Prisoners of the Census is a project of the Prison Policy Initiative. The primary author is Executive Director Peter Wagner // (413) 527-1333 ISSN 1552-4418 RSS XML FeedColophon | XML Feeds | Design by Andreas ViklundThe Prison Policy Initiative relies entirely on private funds and we need your support.Can you make a tax-deductible contribution today?  Yes  No
 

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