I wonder why...
I've been hearing about this practive of 'prison-gerrymandering' and I am a little perplexed. In my opinion, prison-gerry-mandering is a bit of a bad idea. With this practice, inmates are counted on the 2010 Census as being residents of the city in which they are incarcerated, not the city that they are from. Does that make sense?
If my uncle/brother/father/son/etc is set to do a 3 year bid in a prison in PA but will be back home in DE once released, why would you count him as a PA resident? That is ridiculous. We are encourgaing everyone to fill out the census form so that we can get an ACCURATE count of the people in each state, city, and town. The federal government determines how much federal aid that they will give to certain cities based upon the census results. How does the federal government expect ACCURATE results when they are allowing a total miscount of American inmates?
There is a supposed 10.4% of the total population of black males aged 25-29 is in prison. Since many inner cities do not have prisons in their juridiction, these men are being counted as citizens of cities to which THEY DO NOT BELONG. Yet the government complains about the inner city not receiving it's fair share of federal aid becasue people in the inner city often ignore the census count. Well, try counting our incarerated men (and women) as being citizens of the city that you pulled them from rather than the city that you placed them in. It may not make a drastic life-changing difference in our federal aid but at least it would help.
My common sense has me so confused by this, maybe I need to do a little more research into this whole 'prison-gerrymandering' thing....
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I don't trust our government and I never have. I looked at the census, set it down and haven't looked at it since.
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