Comments on: Controversy over military personnel and reapportionment is similar to debate over counting of prisoners

By: hugh clark

hugh clark — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:25:16 +0000

So, how my precincts has Arizona accorded to its many Hawaii inmates?

By: Maui Girl

Maui Girl — Sun, 27 May 2012 04:46:53 +0000

They are NOT willing residents of the state they live in. Big difference.

The residency issue is diluted on the mainland because of the contiguous geography. In Hawaii, the neighbor islands are shut out of debate due to the control of Oahu. Kay.

By: Pilialoha

Pilialoha — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:39:17 +0000

A significant difference, of course, is that military and their families in a community actually use community facilities and may or may not take part in public activities. Their kids are in schools, their cars use the roads and so on. Prisoners are just warehoused heads, and giving disproportionate power to districts where prisons (many of them privately run) are gives inordinate power to those with an interest in creating more prisoners in a nation already suffering from a higher proportion of its people incarcerated (most of them poor and of-color) than almost developed nation on earth. The private prison industry is as damaging to this country as an NRA doing the bidding of the firearms industry, not legitimate hunters or citizens. Totally distorts “democracy.”