Bill > HR7375

This bill, titled the "End Prison Gerrymandering Act," aims to change how individuals incarcerated in prisons are counted for the decennial census, which is the official count of the U.S. population conducted every ten years. Currently, the law allows for incarcerated individuals to be counted at the correctional facility where they are held. However, this bill proposes that starting with the 2030 census, these individuals will instead be attributed to their last usual place of residence before they were incarcerated. This change is significant because census data is used to determine the number of representatives each state gets in Congress and to draw congressional districts, a process known as redistricting. By counting incarcerated individuals at their prior homes, the bill seeks to prevent the concentration of population in areas with prisons from disproportionately influencing political representation and to ensure that communities are represented based on where their residents actually lived before being incarcerated.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7375/all-info