arbitrary home count for the incarcerated unjust
Incarcerated individuals need a consistent home of record throughout their confinement so that they (and any family in that home city) maintain representation with continuity. I can think of two reasons a prisoner is unlike anyone else in a group home. 1. She has no recourse against a shoddy environment in the same way another person in a group home has; a prisoner cannot seek better lodgings/building management the way say an elderly individual can choose to move to a facility with better amenities/care/management. Time Magazine recently ran an article exploring the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising and its uncorrected wrongs. 2. Legislators in prison districts have no incentive to look out for prisoners' rights and well-being. Instead, there is a perverse incentive to count their bodies in population in order to cater to a smaller constituency. The home of record contains the best chance for a prisoner to be fairly represented. Please vote no on tomorrow's Resolution put forth by Sen. Ward.