Senate Bill 753, An Act Concerning the Counting of Incarcerated Persons for Purposes of Determining Legislative Districts

People should not be counted as residents of the community in which they are incarcerated because they do not decide where they will be imprisoned.

People should not be counted as residents of the community in which they are incarcerated because they do not decide where they will be imprisoned.

Mass incarceration, combined with disenfranchisement laws, subverts participatory democracy, particularly for communities of color. Such communities should not be subjected to the modern version of the three-fifths rule, where their votes count less than others’.