Your research shows how specific rural prison communities get extra voting power. Can you be specific about how individual urban neighborhoods see their votes diluted?
Unfortunately, the available data only allows us to demonstrate the harm done to specific counties and cities. Prisoner miscount cost New York City 43,740 residents, for example, but we can’t go more deeply that that. Other research establishes that incarceration is highly concentrated in particular urban neighborhoods, but we can’t yet say how many people should have been counted within each legislative district. Although most states collect home residence information, this is not generally available or easily analyzed. (And, most critically, the U.S. Census does not currently gather it.) Thanks to other researchers, we can compare incarceration rates by neighborhood in Brookyln, NY [PDF] and again in more detail, New York City, New Haven, CT [PDF], New Haven and Hartford, CT [PDF], Newark and Camden, NJ [PDF], Cleveland, OH [PDF], Dallas, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston, TX [PDF], Providence, Rhode Island [PDF], and New Orleans, LA [PDF]. These reports allow us to compa
Unfortunately, the available data only allows us to demonstrate the harm done to specific counties and cities. Prisoner miscount cost New York City 43,740 residents, for example, but we can’t go more deeply that that. Other research establishes that incarceration is highly concentrated in particular urban neighborhoods, but we can’t yet say how many people should have been counted within each legislative district. Although most states collect home residence information, this is not generally available or easily analyzed. (And, most critically, the U.S. Census does not currently gather it.) Thanks to other researchers, we can compare incarceration rates by neighborhood in Brookyln, NY [PDF] and again in more detail, New York City, New Haven, CT [PDF], New Haven and Hartford, CT [PDF], Baltimore, MD [PDF], Newark and Camden, NJ [PDF], Cleveland, OH [PDF], Dallas, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston, TX [PDF], Providence, Rhode Island [PDF], and New Orleans, LA [PDF]. These repo
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