Prison Gerrymandering: How Much Do Prison Population Counts Matter for Redistricting Outcomes?

• In Event: Studying Geographic Inequality with Computational Methods

Brief Overview

Did ending prison gerrymandering meaningfully constrain legislative redistricting in New York State? Using a simulation approach, we compare the distribution of possible plans under the two prison-count rules on features of political representation.

Authors

• Ariel White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Zach Markovich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Helen Webley-Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology