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Effort Underway to Change How Census Counts NY Prison Inmates
WENY-TV (ABC/CBS/CW) Binghamton, NY By Renata Stiehl ALBANY -- As the 2010 U.S. Census gets underway, New York state lawmakers announced a campaign aimed at changing how the state's prison population is counted. A statewide effort is underway
Read More »Inmates’ Stock Is Rising in Albany District Fight
The New York Times New York, NY ALBANY — As state lawmakers prepare to redraw the boundaries of Congressional and state legislative districts, one segment of the population is quickly becoming a coveted constituency: prisoners. They do
Read More »Counting the Prison Population
Politics on the Hudson (blog) Albany, NY By Joseph Spector The Democratic-led state Legislature and a coalition of groups are looking to remove prisoners from the population count for the U.S. Census and for redistricting in 2012,
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