Counting prisoners in the census

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

I think it's fine. If you think about it, say you have 5,000 people who are going to spend 2-30 years there. The food they get are delivered on your roads, if they need to be sent to a hospital, they're sent to your hospital. If they have a fire, they're sent your firefighters. The water and electricity they get are using your utilities. If they escape, your police are the ones having to help search for them. So on, so forth.

If your utilities/emergency servies/public services are going to be used for them, and you've got them long term, then sure, why wouldn't you count them? Why shouldn't that town or whatever have an extra say in what happens?