2/4 By counting prisoners as residents of their prison cells, the Census displaces a large prison population that is disproportionately male, urban and Black or Latino.
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Incarcerated individuals should be counted in their home communities. That's what CLC recommended as did 99% of 77K comments to the Bureau recommended #Census2020 http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/us-census-bureau-should-change-how-it-counts-incarcerated-individuals-2020 …https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/961264997782433793 …
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3/4 This systematically overvalues the votes of those who live in districts that include prisons and diminishes the political power of everyone else.
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4/4 It particularly diminishes the political representation of urban minority communities, shifting that political power to rural white communities.
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I had no idea that the census of prisoners was done this way.
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