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September 14, 2024:
Our advocacy department will host a workshop at the MacArthur Justice Center’s Realizing Releases convening. The workshop will provide strategies for investigating state parole systems.

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September 18, 2024:
Senior Research Analyst Emily Widra will join a panel discussion hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School about the health inequities people in the criminal legal system face. The webinar starts at 4:30 pm ET.

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Los Angeles County health districts	Number of people in state prison from each Los Angeles County health district, 2020	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Alhambra	954	339,399	340,346	280
Antelope Valley	2,512	420,697	419,935	598
Bellflower	1,312	356,465	357,777	367
Central	1,373	354,750	355,326	386
Compton	2,110	278,815	280,925	751
East LA	830	195,082	195,912	424
East Valley	1,492	443,569	445,020	335
El Monte	1,694	419,797	421,491	402
Foothill	1,008	308,499	309,359	326
Glendale	788	344,450	345,238	228
Harbor	769	201,739	200,947	383
Hollywood-Wilshire	1,525	479,505	481,002	317
Inglewood	2,237	411,617	413,854	541
Long Beach	2,390	469,439	471,592	507
Northeast	1,280	287,613	288,885	443
Pasadena	560	140,361	140,921	397
Pomona	1,983	547,523	549,506	361
San Antonio	1,700	407,864	409,554	415
San Fernando	1,347	526,877	528,061	255
South	1,923	193,899	195,822	982
Southeast	1,167	166,374	167,541	697
Southwest	2,831	379,199	381,900	741
Torrance	1,449	465,691	467,136	310
West	1,545	666,399	667,912	231
West Valley	2,547	899,111	901,643	282
Whittier	1,110	321,720	322,788	344

Los Angeles County health districts: This is the County of Los Angeles’ health district as drawn by the Department of Public Health in 2011. For more information on health districts and how they are used by the Department of Public Health, please see the Health Districts Profiles from the County of Los Angeles Public Health Department.
Number of people in state prison from each Los Angeles County health district, 2020: This is the number of people from each Los Angeles County health district in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020: This is the population of the Los Angeles County health district as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020: This is the total population of the Los Angeles County health district as reflected in the 2020 Census plus the imprisoned population.
Imprisonment rate per 100,000: This is the number of imprisoned people divided by the total population and then multiplied by 100,000. It allows ready comparison of the frequency of imprisonment between each Los Angeles County health district of different population sizes.