{"id":187,"date":"2021-11-02T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press-releases\/grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:00:08","slug":"grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press\/grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Coalition Calls on Rhode Island Leaders to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering"},"template":"","class_list":["post-187","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Today, more than 20 statewide organizations sent a letter to the members of Rhode Island\u2019s Special Committee on Reapportionment, urging them to end the harmful practice of prison gerrymandering. With a single vote, the committee can immediately enact this change so the data can be updated before drawing new district maps.","featured_image":"","press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7849}"],"related_issues":[62,424],"related_work":false,"location":42},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Today, more than 20 statewide organizations sent a letter<\/a> to the members of Rhode Island\u2019s Special Committee on Reapportionment, urging them to end the harmful practice of prison gerrymandering. The letter calls on committee members to amend the 2020 Census data it uses for redistricting to count Rhode Islanders as residents of their home addresses rather than the prisons where they are temporarily housed. With a single vote, the committee can immediately enact this change so the data can be updated before drawing new district maps.\r\n\r\n\"Prison gerrymandering does nothing but strip away Rhode Islander\u2019s constitutional right to fair representation in our government,\u201d said John Marion, executive director of Common Cause Rhode Island<\/strong>. \u201cState leaders have the opportunity to correct an unjust practice that disproportionately impacts people of color right now before we draw new district maps in place for the next decade. We urge the Reapportionment Committee not to miss this chance to provide every Rhode Islander with fair representation in our government.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cEvery person in Rhode Island deserves to have equal representation and equal voice in our government, regardless of what political party we belong to, what we look like, or where we live,\" said Jane Koster, president of the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island<\/strong>. \u201cPrison gerrymandering unfairly inflates the voting power of whiter, more rural communities while diminishing voting power for more diverse and urban communities. It\u2019s time we end this harmful practice in Rhode Island once and for all.\u201d\r\n\r\nAccording to a 2016 Department of Justice study<\/a>, people spend an average of 2.6 years serving in prison. The U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s Census count takes place once every ten years, meaning that anyone who is counted as a resident of a prison facility in the 2020 redistricting process will be counted as a resident of the prison long after they return to their permanent address.\r\n\r\nWith an affirmative vote to end prison gerrymandering, Rhode Island would become the thirteenth state in the nation to ban counting residents at prisons rather than their home communities. The letter highlights that just last month, Pennsylvania\u2019s Legislative Reapportionment Committee voted<\/a> to count incarcerated people in their home addresses for redistricting.\r\n\r\nTo view the letter, click here<\/a>."}}]},"yoast_head":"\nGrassroots Coalition Calls on Rhode Island Leaders to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering - Common Cause Rhode Island<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press-releases\/grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grassroots Coalition Calls on Rhode Island Leaders to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press\/grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Rhode Island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press-releases\/grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press-releases\/grassroots-coalition-calls-on-rhode-island-leaders-to-eliminate-prison-gerrymandering\/\",\"name\":\"Grassroots Coalition Calls on Rhode Island Leaders to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering - 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