{"id":4005,"date":"2011-03-30T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2011-03-31T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:04:41","slug":"enterprise-prisoner-count-could-affect-littles-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/30\/enterprise-prisoner-count-could-affect-littles-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise:  Prisoner count could affect Little&#8217;s district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/523731\/Without-prisoners--Little-s-district-will-have-to-grow.html?nav=5008\">The Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> has been looking at Census figures the last couple of days, trying to sort out how those numbers could affect redistricting.<\/p>\n<p>They note that the new rules involving how inmates are counted could reshape Sen. Betty Little&#8217;s district.\u00a0 Without the roughly 11,000 state prisoners in her senate district, the population drops to just 294,929.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal number is 312,550. <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/523731\/Without-prisoners--Little-s-district-will-have-to-grow.html?nav=5008\">This from Nate Brown&#8217;s report:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Betty Little&#8217;s state Senate district and, to a lesser degree, Janet  Duprey&#8217;s Assembly district are going to be on the small side now that  prisoners aren&#8217;t being counted anymore.\u00a0 Little&#8217;s six-county 45th Senate District might have to grow&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The method for counting prison inmates has been controversial for years.\u00a0 Most Democrats think they should be tallied in the downstate districts where most prisoners come from.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have argued that inmates should be counted where they reside, even if they can&#8217;t vote and only use public services provided by the Department of Correctional Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Daily Enterprise has been looking at Census figures the last couple of days, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4876,4885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}