Sentences with phrase «prison gerrymandering»

Schneiderman worked to pass tougher ethics and hate - crimes legislation; he led a successful push to ease the Rockefeller drug laws and end «prison gerrymandering,» which counted inmates as local residents upstate and weakened downstate Democratic districts.

Dilan still has doubts on prison gerrymandering Legislative Gazette Former Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who supported a bill that would require inmates to be counted at their previous address, said the 2010 law... (Read more)

In 2010, our State put an end to decades of the unfair and undemocratic redistricting practice known as prison gerrymandering.

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«As a lawmaker, I fought to end the practice of prison - based gerrymandering that distorted the democratic process and undermined the principle of «one person, one vote.»

Notwithstanding creation of a nonpartisan redistricting commission, the upstate Republican base will shrink due to death, outmigration, the end of state prison - based gerrymandering, and other demographic changes.