Legislator says prison inmates should be counted ‘where their true residency is’
by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
The town of Florence’s population is roughly 11,000 people, as most people understand the term. But officially, the population is 28,000 when everyone behind bars is included.
A Glendale-area legislator sees something wrong with this picture and believes inmates should be counted where their true homes are.
“Ideally, they should be counted where their home residence is before they were incarcerated,” Democratic Sen. Martin Quezada told PinalCentral in a phone interview. “Obviously most of these individuals are going to be released at some point as well, and they will be returning back home to those same communities. It makes sense, in my eyes at least, to count them where their true residence is.”
