Counting prisoners in the census

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(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.