Should the Census Count Black and Latino Inmates in Rural Prisons as Area Residents?

By Kurtis Lee, Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times

CAÑON CITY, Colo. —  

Jhil Marquantte lived behind the sandstone walls of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in a 6-by-9-foot cell.

Marquantte, 46, spent years here in this mountain town, but always behind bars — locked inside Territorial, and most of the half-dozen other state prisons that dot this rural stretch of Colorado. If you asked him about home, he’d tell you it was two hours north in Denver where he grew up and his family still resides — and where he long dreamed of returning after serving his sentence.

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