Pa. ends ‘prison gerrymandering’ with closely divided committee vote
08.24.2021 / By Katie Meyer
The commission in charge of redrawing Pennsylvania’s House and Senate maps has voted 3-2 to make a major change to the redistricting process: It will no longer count many state prisoners as residents of the districts where they’re incarcerated, but rather as residents of the districts where they originally lived.
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