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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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Sparks City Council Wards	Number of people in state prison from each ward, 2020	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Imprisonment rate per 100,000
Ward 1	98	22,184	22,282	440
Ward 2	60	23,273	23,333	257
Ward 3	33	22,111	22,144	149
Ward 4	7	22,618	22,625	31
Ward 5	28	23,494	23,522	119

Sparks City Council Wards: This is the Sparks City Council Ward as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each ward, 2020: This is the number of people from each Sparks City Council Ward in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020: This is the population of the Sparks City Council Ward as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020: This is the total population of the Sparks City Council Ward 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 Sparks City Council Ward of different population sizes.