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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

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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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