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Report: Louisiana’s democracy distorted by ‘prison gerrymandering’

— A report from the Prison Policy Initiative says Louisiana’s political map gives unfair influence to residents in districts with large prison populations because of a Census Bureau policy the state continues to follow.

Because the Census counts incarcerated people as residents of the prison where they’re held, not their home communities, the districts where there are large prisons have more census…

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