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Re:Divergence in U.S. Sex Ratios by County, 1820–2010 by dragonwriter on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:19PM (#9507131)
Prisoners are people.

Prisoners live in a geographical location.

Seems kind of obvious that prisoners living within the bounds of a geographic area would be included in counts of people living in that geographic area.

Re:Divergence in U.S. Sex Ratios by County, 1820–2010 by herge on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:44PM (#9507310)
If census information is used to apportion government funds, you'd want the money to go to where they were from (which, if it has such a high number of prisoners that their population numbers are affected, probably really need the money), as opposed to going to whatever community managed to lobby to build the prison.
Re:Divergence in U.S. Sex Ratios by County, 1820–2010 by Lawtonfogle on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:21PM (#9507143)
They do not live there by choice and they are very isolated from the rest of the population. It is different enough I would like to see numbers with and without.