This year I learned about Avenal state prison in California: the prison creates jobs; prisoners count toward population but cannot vote.https://twitter.com/keegannyc/status/890541716343857152 …
Therefore, finding ways to house more prisoners in Avenal is like putting a thumb on the scale for the area in CA's representative democracy
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'ASP has been described as the "most overcrowded prison in the state [of California]";' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenal_State_Prison …
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'In the early 1980s, "almost everyone" in the town of Avenal desired the prison to be built to improve the economic status of the town.'
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'It was reportedly "the first prison to be solicited by a local community."'
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Standard story for a lot of prisons. That's why shutting them down is so hard: if the resources allocated to a town are based on population
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when a prison shuts down they aren't going to get the same attention to infrastructure, govermental representation, etc. Not to mention
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A lot of prisons were built without a prisoner population ready to go for this reason. Tams supermax in IL had a pop. of <10 at opening.
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