Prison-Based Gerrymandering
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Massachusetts, Prison Policy Initiative. October, 2009. "Five of Massachusetts’ House districts meet federal minimal population requirements only because the state treats prisoners as residents of the district with the prison."
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Oklahoma, Prison Policy Initiative. September, 2009. ([B]y relying on Census Bureau counts of prison populations to pad out legislative districts with prisons, Oklahoma is inflating the votes of residents who live near prisons at the expense of every other resident in the state.)
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Wisconsin, Prison Policy Initiative. March, 2008.
- Phantom Constituents in Tennessee's Boards of County Commissioners Prison Policy Initiative; Peter Wagner and JooHye DellaRocco. February, 2008. "[This report] identifies 10 Tennessee counties in which the use of flawed Census data to draw county commissioner districts has created substantial inequities in political power within the counties."
- Prisoners of the Census: Electoral and Financial Consequences of Counting Prisoners Where They Go, Not Where They Come From, [PDF] Eric Lotke and Prison Policy Initiative. April, 2005.
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Nevada, Prison Policy Initiative and Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. December, 2004.
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Montana, Prison Policy Initiative. December, 2004.
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Texas, Prison Policy Initiative. November, 2004.
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in Ohio, Prison Policy Initiative. July, 2004.
- Prisoners of the Census Miscounting prisoners undercounts democracy, [Website] Prison Policy Initiative. March, 2004.
- Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in New York, Prison Policy Initiative. April, 2002. (Study of the effect of counting urban prisoners as rural residents for purposes of state legislative redistricting)
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