clipped from www.nydailynews.com Pols, cons fight Census Bureau to include prisoners as residents of city, not upstate jails BY Erica Pearson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The last time the census was done - in 2000 - Brooklynite Ramon Velasquez was locked up in Attica state prison for robbery. According to the Census Bureau, Velasquez lived not in hardscrabble Bushwick, but in rural Attica Village, 264 miles away. "Knowing that they counted me in Attica was a shock to me," said Velasquez, 50, a volunteer with the New York City AIDS Housing Network. "It's not fair because we don't use their services. We're being counted just for a political purpose. You don't have many people up there in those counties." Velasquez is the face of a long-running battle between the Census Bureau, which counts prisoners in the areas they are incarcerated, and big-city politicians who want them counted where they really live. It's not about money: Subtracting the 29,000 New York City inmates wouldn't cut deeply into the city's federal funding.