Mon Dec 12, 2022, 10:40 AM

Financial and political incentives for imprisonment.

I just saw this on social media / TikTok the author was atlantalawyer.

Basically she said the census counts prisoners as part of the population of the county where they are located. Federal resource$ and political representation depend on how that population is counted. So a prison can grow a population -- built in a low population area it can even qualify the area as a Congressional district when before they wouldn't qualify as one. These areas also become eligible for federal money.

No wonder we have more imprisoned people than any other nation worldwide and people like MTG.

Interactive US Prison Map 2010

https://www.gl-li.com/2018/02/05/map-prisons-in-the-united-states/

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Financial and political incentives for imprisonment. (Original post)	live love laugh	Dec 2022	OP
I believe the census says to count where you are housed at the time.	jimfields33	Dec 2022	#1
There are ...	2naSalit	Dec 2022	#3
Yet they cannot vote for their Congressfolk.	keithbvadu2	Dec 2022	#2
It is disappointing...	2naSalit	Dec 2022	#4

Response to live love laugh (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 10:54 AM

jimfields33 (12,397 posts)

1. I believe the census says to count where you are housed at the time.

Of course colleges should do the same then and not sure they do. That may equalize the numbers for cities and other areas.

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Mon Dec 12, 2022, 12:45 PM

2naSalit (69,976 posts)

3. There are ...

Separate classifications for institutional housing in the census tabulating process. I was a a crew leader in 2010 and my enumerators were to count private housing populations, they did not go to hospitals, dorms or prisons, etc.. There are separate enumeration teams who acquire that data, we never saw it, I am not aware of how the counts were conducted. I had enough on my plate as an adult babysitter/pencil pusher working within the parameters of my assignment.

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Mon Dec 12, 2022, 11:43 AM

keithbvadu2 (30,908 posts)

2. Yet they cannot vote for their Congressfolk.

Yet they cannot vote for their Congressfolk.

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Response to live love laugh (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 12:47 PM

2naSalit (69,976 posts)

4. It is disappointing...

To realize how many politicians are so bent on finding ways to circumvent laws for personal gain rather than actually serving the public they swore to serve.

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