Sentences with phrase «upstate prison populations»

She says it would also reinstitute the practice of using upstate prison populations to boost Senate districts, by counting the inmates where they are imprisoned rather than where they live.

As we have talked about extensively on Capital Tonght, upstate prison populations have been utilized in the past by the Senate GOP to carve out districts that are more friendly for their conference.

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Their chances of retaining a majority are further harmed by the recent reversal of the statute that counted prisoners toward the populations of the districts where their residences are (largely downstate, where Democrats live), not where they're in prison (largely upstate, where Republicans live).