The reason this matters: In some (most?) states, currently-incarcerated prisoners cannot vote, but they do count towards the population of the town in which th

The reason this matters: In some (most?) states, currently-incarcerated prisoners cannot vote, but they do count towards the population of the town in which they are incarcerated for things like Congressional districting. So, this has the effect of massively skewing political power towards the demographics of the non-incarcerated people living near prisons, at the expense of the districts where the incarcerated people actually came from.