The Times has an excellent editorial today on census reform for prisoners. Right now, prisoners are counted as part of the population where they are incarcerated, not where they live, which has obvious negative effects on funding for reentry programs, and creates incredibly perverse incentives. In New York, for example, the prison population, which of course can't vote, has changed the population profile of the state just enough to help keep an additional state senate upstate, and thus keep the state senate's fragile (and unnatural) Republican majority.

The Times reports on tensions between blacks and Hispanics in L.A. and a must-read Wall Street Journal dispatch on what happened at a Georgia chicken processing factory when an immigration raid provided an unexpected opportunity to the town's black residents.