From Connecticut News Junkie:
HARTFORD, CT — The Democratic leaders in the General Assembly pledged support Wednesday for changing the voting districts in which Connecticut counts prison inmates this year, before those districts are locked in place for another decade.
Senate President Martin Looney and House Speaker Matt Ritter appeared on the steps of the state Capitol with members of the NAACP and the Connecticut ACLU to promote a bill that would require the state to record prisoners as members of the communities they came from rather than the towns they are incarcerated in.
The concept, which lawmakers have considered but not acted on for years, has a sort of expiration date this year as the legislature begins the once-a-decade process of remapping Connecticut’s voting districts. Continue reading >>>
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