Counting prisoners in the census

[Nebuchadnezzar]

In Hamilton County Ohio we have the Hamilton County Jail and the prison in this area is in Lebonon Ohio.

I think it's that way for most of the state prison systems but I'm not sure.

EDIT: I just looked up Rikers Island and they classify it as a jail, not a prison but the info comes from Wikipedia so take it for what it's worth.

[*michaelsean*]

(02-19-2018, 07:45 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: In Hamilton County Ohio we have the Hamilton County Jail and the prison in this area is in Lebonon Ohio.

I think it's that way for most of the state prison systems but I'm not sure.

EDIT: I just looked up Rikers Island and they classify it as a jail, not a prison but the info comes from Wikipedia so take it for what it's worth

There’s also Warren right next to Lebanon.

Rikers is a jail.

[treee]

Did you xpost this to neutralpolitics?

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(02-19-2018, 06:33 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Great points Leonard.  Hadnt thought about it in this context.

Do you think there would be any distinction along these lines when its a federal vs state penitentiary?  Only I can think of along these lines would be greater FBI involvement in search teams...  

  

Yeah, that's pretty much all I could really think about off the top of my head, too. It'd still be their roads/power/water/hospitals/firefighters/police/etc. I think that list holds pretty strong be it federal or state.

Plus there's the simple fact that then having to find out every single prisoner's normal residence for every state/federal prison and distributing them back out for population-counts seems way too unnessicary. I think we can just consider it a perk for the local areas for having to support the services and infrastructure of so many non-taxpaying dependents.

[Belsnickel]

(02-19-2018, 10:02 PM)treee Wrote: Did you xpost this to neutralpolitics?

I posted it there, first, then copied it over here. Was curious what the difference in discussion would look like. My own little experiment.