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A Dilution of Democracy: Prison-Based Gerrymandering; Learn More:
Prisons and the Census
The Anatole France First Amendment of Citizens United?: ACSblog | January 21, 2010
Examining High Court's Consideration of Campaign Finance Regulation: Ideas | Action Blog | September 9, 2009; March 30, 2010
The Census and the Cell Block: This year, the census will count over a million inmates in the wrong place--and their home communities will suffer for it.; American Prospect Online; By Brenda Wright; "Once, only once, and in the right place" goes the hopeful mantra of the hard-working and underappreciated Census Bureau. But the current rules for counting incarcerated persons are at odds with the last part of this goal. Next week, the census will count 1.6 million people in the wrong spot, distorting democratic representation in many states and localities.

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