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Why the Bureau Can and Must Start Collecting the Home Addresses of Incarcerated People
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Why the Bureau Can and Must Start Collecting the Home Addresses of Incarcerated People
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The need to correctly enumerate incarcerated individuals as residents of their home towns and not as residents of the prisons in which they are temporarily confined is explained. Following an executive summary, this report covers: the unique data needs of state and local legislators that require incarcerated people to be counted at home; how prisoners are counted has occasional effect on funding; the law does not prohibit, and may require, the Census Bureau to collect incarcerated peoples home addresses; counting prisoners is far easier than counting overseas U.S. citizens; changing how prisoners are counted would not mean that how students are counted would need to be changed; it is feasible for the Census Bureau to collect and process prisoners home address information as part of Census 2010; what reform would look like -- 3 options; and state and local proposals to adjust census data do not absolve the Census Bureau of the responsibility to change how prisoners are counted.