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Mass Incarceration Draws Its Own Maps and Creates a Country in Its Image
In 2008, a man named Danny Young received just two votes for his candidacy to the City Council in Anamosa, Iowa: one from his wife and one from his neighbor. Both were write-ins, but he still won handily. Young’s ward had the same number of constituents as any of the other wards in his city, but since 1,321 of his district’s 1,379 constituents were incarcerated at the Anamosa State Penitentiary and couldn’t vote, his 58 non-incarcerated constituents had about 25 times the representational power of their fellow residents. In Allen Parish, Louisiana, 2,430 of the First District’s 3,681 residents were incarcerated at the Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex during the 2010 census redistricting.

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