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PA Ends ‘Prison Gerrymandering’ with Closely-Divided Committee Vote

Andre Frueh
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The commission in charge of redrawing Pennsylvania’s House and Senate maps has voted to make a major change to the redistricting process.

WHYY’s Katie Meyer reports it will no longer count many state prisoners as residents of the districts where they’re incarcerated, but rather as residents of the districts where they originally lived.

(Original air-date: 8/26/21)

Katie Meyer is WHYY’s political reporter. She covers politics, policy, power, and elections at every level of government, with the goal of showing how it all affects people’s lives.