Get the latest updates: Can you make a tax-deductible gift to support our work? Donate Not near you?Invite us to your city, college or organization. “There are many ways to hijack political power. One of them is to draw state or city legislative districts around large prisons — and pretend that the inmates are legitimate constituents.”—Brent Staples
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Pennsylvania and Rhode Island’s stopgap solutions to prison gerrymandering applied to the 2020 redistricting cycle only. The national movement against prison gerrymandering began in 2001 when the founders of the Prison Policy Initiative discovered that the sheer size of the prison population was combining with an outdated Census Bureau rule to seriously distort how political decisions are made in this country. We put numbers to the problem and suggested solutions in a series of reports and sparked a national movement.
Since then, we’ve made tremendous progress towards ending prison gerrymandering:
Get the latest updates: Learn more about the organization behind the Prison Gerrymandering Project. The transfer of Black and Latino incarcerated people to communities very different than their own is a nationwide problem. We explain that prison gerrymandering is bad for democracy but federal & state aid are not impacted. How a prison helped one man get elected with just two votes. Not near you?Invite us to your city, college or organization.
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