The law, passed in the recent General Assembly session and set to take effect Oct. 1, will exclude individuals who were not state residents prior to their incarceration in state or federal correctional institutions from the population numbers used to create congressional, state, county and municipal legislative districts.
It also requires prisoners to be counted as residents of their last known address, rather than lumped into the areas - such as...
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