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If tax-paying part-time residents shouldn’t be counted outside their home districts, neither should incarcerated people.
In a recent editorial, “In new Census, home is where the vote should be,” the Times Herald-Record (Orange County, NY), examines the issue of prison-based gerrymandering in the larger context of voting and election law in New York State. If … Continue reading
Legality of Prison Telephone Rates
“I live on a fixed income, and that prison phone contract forced me to make some hard decisions—most of the time I couldn’t afford to put food on the table and talk to my son in the same month. I want everyone hurt by those outrageous phone bills for 10 years to finally get justice.” ~Ivey Walton
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Tagged Annette Dickerson, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Center for Constitutional Rights, Community Service Society, Darius Charney, Ivey Walton, Juan Cartagena, MCI, New York State, Rachel Meeropol, Ronna Smith, United States Constitution, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Verizon, Walton v. NYSDOCS
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