Inmates don't vote, but they definitely count in state politics : vimarsana.com

Inmates don't vote, but they definitely count in state politics

Criminal justice researchers argue that the practice of counting incarcerated people as residents of their correctional facility, commonly referred to as prison gerrymandering, distorts representation in government. Hundreds of counties, cities and school boards avoid counting prisoners when drawing local district boundaries, but few states make the adjustment. In Holdenville, Oklahoma, nearly a quarter of the population is made up of people incarcerated at the Davis Correctional Facility. More than a dozen rural communities with large prisons, including Sayre, Granite, Fort Supply and Hominy, will see their populations inflated by incarcerated people during redistricting.

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