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Prisons aren't disproportionately located in majority-female areas. Prisons are, however, disproportionately located in majority-white areas. Prison gerrymande

Prisons aren't disproportionately located in majority-female areas. Prisons are, however, disproportionately located in majority-white areas. Prison gerrymandering allows majority white communities to count Black prisoners from outside their community in their census while stripping them of their ability to vote. It gives the white community more power and resources, and takes not only from the prisoner their right to vote, but from the prisoner's community a census taker. The Census is literally how representatives in the House are allocated and per-capita funding is divided.

axiosgunnar 6y ago
The prison location has nothing to do with the location of the crime. Not every town has a prison, and prisoners often get shifted around to different prisons for various reasons (security requirements etc.) Also, pretty much all of the US is „majority female“, even if it‘s just by 1.6%.
pseudo0 6y ago
A far simpler explanation for the same pattern would be that prisons take up a lot of space, and are therefore often located outside of urban centers, and rural areas also happen to be whiter than average. People generally also don't want to live near prisons, making it politically expedient to stick them somewhere out of sight in the boonies. Those reasons seem a lot more convincing to me than a concerted effort to shave a few fractions of a percent off census data.
- omegaworks 6y ago
  The benefit of the doubt can only go so far, extending it to this issue is an exercise in willful ignorance of the history of this country[1] and how it has systematically accumulated and protected white wealth at the expense of people of color. It's not just "a fraction of a percent." It's one in five. "One in five people in prison for at least 10 years is a black man incarcerated before age 25.[2]" You have no idea the sheer magnitude of the problem we have here. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619... 2. https://apps.urban.org/features/long-prison-terms/demographics.html https://apps.urban.org/features/long-prison-terms/demographi...

axiosgunnar 6y ago

The prison location has nothing to do with the location of the crime. Not every town has a prison, and prisoners often get shifted around to different prisons for various reasons (security requirements etc.) Also, pretty much all of the US is „majority female“, even if it‘s just by 1.6%.

pseudo0 6y ago

A far simpler explanation for the same pattern would be that prisons take up a lot of space, and are therefore often located outside of urban centers, and rural areas also happen to be whiter than average. People generally also don't want to live near prisons, making it politically expedient to stick them somewhere out of sight in the boonies. Those reasons seem a lot more convincing to me than a concerted effort to shave a few fractions of a percent off census data.

omegaworks 6y ago
The benefit of the doubt can only go so far, extending it to this issue is an exercise in willful ignorance of the history of this country[1] and how it has systematically accumulated and protected white wealth at the expense of people of color. It's not just "a fraction of a percent." It's one in five. "One in five people in prison for at least 10 years is a black man incarcerated before age 25.[2]" You have no idea the sheer magnitude of the problem we have here. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619... 2. https://apps.urban.org/features/long-prison-terms/demographics.html https://apps.urban.org/features/long-prison-terms/demographi...