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Number of people in prison from each Maryland State Senate district.
Senate Districts	Senator Name, 2015	Number of people in state prison from district, 2010
1	George C. Edwards	157
2	Andrew A. Serafini	508
3	Ronald N. Young	195
4	Michael J. Hough	89
5	Justin D. Ready	177
6	Johnny Ray Salling	591
7	J.B. Jennings	244
8	Katherine A. Klausmeier	242
9	Gail H. Bates	43
10	Delores G. Kelley	312
11	Robert A. (Bobby) Zirkin	125
12	Edward J. Kasemeyer	222
13	Guy Guzzone	97
14	Karen S. Montgomery	74
15	Brian J. Feldman	45
16	Susan C. Lee	4
17	Cheryl Kagan	91
18	Richard S. Madaleno, Jr.	74
19	Roger Manno	71
20	Jamin B. (Jamie) Raskin	95
21	James C. Rosapepe	108
22	Paul G. Pinsky	215
23	Douglas J. J. Peters	122
24	Joanne C. Benson	348
25	Ulysses Currie	297
26	C. Anthony Muse	278
27	Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr.	234
28	Thomas M. Middleton	336
29	Stephen Waugh	253
30	John C. Astle	225
31	Bryan W. Simonaire	252
32	James E. DeGrange, Sr.	181
33	Edward R. Reilly	90
34	Bob Cassilly	390
35	H. Wayne Norman, Jr.	227
36	Stephen S. Hershey, Jr.	302
37	Adelaide C. Eckardt	726
38	James N. Mathias, Jr.	328
39	Nancy J. King	118
40	Catherine E. Pugh	1,855
41	Lisa A. Gladden	1,185
42	James Brochin	93
43	Joan Carter Conway	1,096
44	Shirley Nathan-Pulliam	1,167
45	Nathaniel J. McFadden	1,779
46	William C. Ferguson IV	1,031
47	Victor R. Ramirez	294

Senate Districts: This is the state senate districts as drawn in 2012.
Senator Name, 2015: This is the incumbent senator as of January 2015.
Number of people in state prison from district, 2010: See the methodology section of the report for how we calculated how many people were in state prison in 2010 from areas that became a part of this district in 2012.