prison gerrymandering

February 24, 2023 - The Census Bureau has released its first round of corrections for the 2020 population count, and communities in Southern states will benefit thanks to prisoners being added to their populations. Reform advocates say this "prison gerrymandering" distorts democracy and paints a misleading picture of community populations for planning purposes. A growing number of states, including several in the South, are taking action to end it.

December 6, 2021 - Prisons inflate the political representation of the communities that host them — without any say from prisoners themselves.