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Inmates Raise County Census Numbers
By ajc.com
Published: 05/03/2010

Nearly one of every four people in Calhoun County sits behind bars. They can’t vote, check out a library book or drive county-maintained roads.

But they can bring the southwest Georgia county a lot of federal money while bolstering the community’s political clout.

The U.S. census, currently under way, counts prisoners where they resided on April 1. While most prisoners hail from Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and other cities, they mainly do time in state prisons and federal penitentiaries in rural areas.

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