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		<title>Cecil County Census: Criminals Add to Population; Possible Redistricting Impact</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s criminal element costs taxpayers a lot of money, from the harm they inflict on the community by their crimes to the costs of bringing them to justice in court and incarcerating them. But now 179 of our least productive citizens have done us a small favor: a slight boost in the county’s population under revised census figures. But statewide, the criminals could have an impact on redistricting for Congress and state legislative seats. The criminals don’t even live here any more. They are incarcerated in state prisons located in other counties. But because they lived here before being locked up, they have been added to our local population under a 2010 state law. The “No Representation without Population Act” required that the state re-calculate the official US census data, for the purpose of redistricting for congressional and state legislative districts, to apportion state prison inmates to their home counties. In the past, Washington, Allegany and Somerset counties have had large artificial boosts in census population figures because inmates at state prisons located in those counties were counted as residents. Now, Cecil County’s official population is listed as 101,287, up 179 from the initial Census report of 101,108. (See [&#8230;]]]></description>
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