I hope that there is some--even in this instance, because this is a complaint that I have heard about.

we in Illinois in our General Assembly have introduced legislation that states that the census would readjust the count for incarcerated persons back to their residence, not in the areas where the facility is.

My hometown has 14,000 people and there are 900 in the prison. Of those 900, 800 of them are from Chicago.

Well, certainly there is going to be some work in keeping records on it, but that person comes out of that jurisdiction, he is not going back to that jurisdiction, because the census is only done every 10 years.

But when that prisoner is counted, Mr. Groves, it is added to that community.

But that is no benefit--the community is benefiting by that in various ways, and one way is totally unfair to the community.

I just think what Dr. Groves just said, that we should get that on tape and make a commercial out of it. That was a hell of a commercial that you just made for the people to fill out the census.

You all could make a study by using Illinois because there are quite a few small communities where we have built in the last 20 years, they built 20 new prisons in Illinois.

I want it to be known that I was able to hook up the Chicago operation with Stan Moore and we had a major event there to kick off the necessity for having everybody counted.

Where does that prisoner actually have a home and where is that person going back to, and it will be a drain on that community as opposed to leaving Centralia and coming back to Chicago.

What about the various activities after the census is over and there has to be an undercount, or an assessment of the undercount.

Mr. Chairman, in the urban communities or the suburban communities, door-to-door sometimes works.

I think this is an issue that the census ought to take up in consideration and not just leave it to the States.

I think that adjustments could be made, even in this cycle.

this is an American issue that I believe we see good consensus on both sides to solve these problems.

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