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October 11-13, 2024:
Prison Policy Initiative’s Advocacy Department (Sarah Staudt and Emmett Sanders) will be at the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People, and Families Movement (FICPFM) conference in Detroit, Michigan from Friday, October 11th to Sunday, October 13. If you’re going to be there, contact us if you’d like to meet up and talk about how Prison Policy Initiative might be able to support your state and local activism to change the criminal legal system!

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State Senate Districts	Number of people in state prison from each State Senate district, 2022	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Imprisonment rate per 100,000
District 1	551	115,622	116,169	474
District 2	554	115,780	114,055	486
District 3	723	119,519	120,224	601
District 4	741	117,821	118,562	625
District 5	1,120	123,995	125,068	896
District 6	295	117,595	117,874	250
District 7	823	124,487	124,855	659
District 8	578	120,920	121,498	476
District 9	229	124,537	124,766	184
District 10	310	123,168	123,478	251
District 11	317	114,481	114,486	277
District 12	676	114,171	113,358	596
District 13	400	114,815	114,971	348
District 14	875	120,750	121,625	719
District 15	594	115,848	115,563	514
District 16	142	119,031	119,173	119
District 17	350	114,040	112,618	311
District 18	223	118,250	118,464	188
District 19	559	123,416	123,866	451
District 20	606	123,445	123,839	489
District 21	489	118,105	118,507	413
District 22	406	125,286	125,603	323
District 23	119	125,014	125,133	95
District 24	609	124,799	125,178	487
District 25	377	122,998	123,352	306
District 26	433	124,178	124,559	348
District 27	617	117,231	117,822	524
District 28	491	114,358	111,927	439
District 29	932	119,834	120,105	776
District 30	545	113,737	113,540	480
District 31	469	120,902	121,242	387
District 32	552	114,168	107,968	511
District 33	417	116,896	115,592	361
District 34	697	113,538	110,323	632
District 35	366	117,819	118,088	310
District 36	501	124,512	124,060	404
District 37	430	113,500	113,930	377
District 38	465	124,283	124,748	373
District 39	1,438	124,908	126,104	1,140

State Senate Districts: This is the Louisiana State Senate district as drawn in 2022.
Number of people in state prison from each State Senate district, 2022: This is the number of people from each State Senate district in state prison as of 2022. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020: This is the population of the State Senate district as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020: This is the total population of the State Senate 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 State Senate district of different population sizes.