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Defending Schneiderman’s Right To Defend
Capitol Tonight Albany Civil rights groups and Assembly Democrats are rushing to defend AG Eric Schneiderman’s right to fight for the prisoner counting law he championed while serving in the Senate that is now the subject
Read More »Speaker Silver and Civil Rights Groups Defend Schneiderman’s Prerogative
PolitickerNY Albany While Andrew Cuomo left open the possibility this afternoon that someone besides the Attorney General might defend last year's law to count prisoners in their home districts against a Republican legal challenge, Assembly Speaker
Read More »Skelos Defends Prison Count Lawsuit; Schneiderman To Defend The State (Updated)
Politics on the Hudson Albany Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County, predicted that his Senate Republican colleagues would be successful in their lawsuit to block a state law that would count prisoners in legislative redistricting
Read More »Under New Bill, NYC’s Convicts Won’t Pad Upstate Districts
The Wall Street Journal New York City Prison inmates don’t vote. But inmates are currently counted as constituents in the political districts where they’re incarcerated, regardless of where they lived before they were sent to prison. Under
Read More »News flash: Albany does good with approval of state budget
NY Daily News Albany Don't be fooled by the grousing and grumbling about how useless everybody and everything in the state capital is supposed to be. The budget was, indeed, four months late and filled with fiscal
Read More »Oneida County faces impact from prisoner-count change
Observer-Dispatch Utica Legislative districts in Rome, Marcy to be altered Oneida County lost nearly 4,000 people Wednesday – at least as they count toward state and local districts. A provision in the newly approved state budget means that
Read More »New York Takes Swing at Prison Gerrymandering
Miller-McCune New York will likely be third state to start counting prisoners as coming from their hometowns, and not where their cell is located. Earlier this summer, Miller-McCune highlighted a report from the NAACP Legal Defense
Read More »Home away from home: Where should prisoners count?
WKTV - NBC 2 Utica, NY ALBANY, N.Y. (WKTV) - A proposed change to how the census counts prisoners would not effect funding. According to Peter Wagner of the Prison Policy Initiative , there is no mention
Read More »New Option for the States on Inmates in the Census
New York Times New York, NY For decades, predominantly rural and Republican districts have had extra clout in state and local legislative bodies because their large inmate populations were counted as local residents in apportioning representation.
Read More »Prisons, Redistricting and the Census
New York Times New York, NY The Census Bureau struck a blow for electoral fairness recently when it decided to speed up publication of its data on prison populations to ensure it is available for the
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