ALBANY – Seeking to end a practice critics call “prisoner gerrymandering,” the state Legislature on Tuesday approved a measure that would require that inmates be counted as residents of their home counties rather than of the areas where they are imprisoned when legislative districts are redrawn.
The Senate and Assembly approved the provision Tuesday night in a $1.75 billion state budget bill that still must be approved by Governor David A. Paterson.
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