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Marc Morial: It is not fair--it is not appropriate to allow those counties where--that happened to house correctional facilities to…

On the recordJanuary 8, 2020
It is not fair--it is not appropriate to allow those counties where--that happened to house correctional facilities to get a disproportionate share of resources as well as political power because they just happened to be the place where incarcerated people are.
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Marc Morial
Louisiana

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Morial discusses the unfairness of counting incarcerated individuals in their housing locations for census purposes.

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