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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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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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Cranston neighborhoods	Number of people incarcerated from each Cranston neighborhood, 2020	Census population, 2020	Total population, 2020	Incarceration rate 100,000
Arlington	19	4,968	4,987	381
Auburn	10	3,260	3,270	306
Auburn/Friendly Community	8	3,227	3,235	247
Dean Estates/Budlong	1	2,065	2,066	48
Eden Park	4	4,278	4,282	93
Edgewood	5	5,294	5,299	94
Fiskeville	0	299	299	0
Forest Hills	1	1,643	1,644	61
Garden City	6	2,866	2,872	209
Garden Hills	2	1,990	1,992	100
Glen Woods	0	1,783	1,783	0
Howard	13	2,707	298	4,362
Knightsville	7	3,077	3,084	227
Laurel Hill	8	4,185	4,193	191
Mayfield/Oak Hill	3	2,365	2,368	127
Meshanticut	1	2,905	2,906	34
Northern Edgewood	12	3,991	4,003	300
Oak Lawn/Brookfield	2	2,431	2,433	82
Park View/South Elmwood	10	2,886	2,896	345
Pawtuxet	4	2,341	2,345	171
South Auburn	1	2,573	2,574	39
Spectacle	4	1,976	1,980	202
Stadium	5	2,032	2,037	245
Stone Hill	0	4,338	4,338	0
Thornton	5	3,373	3,378	148
Village	6	1,899	1,905	315
Western Cranston	2	11,804	11,806	17
Woodridge	3	2,571	2,574	117

Cranston neighborhoods: This is the Cranston neighborhood as last updated by the City's Planning Department in 2023.
Number of people incarcerated from each Cranston neighborhood, 2020: This is the number of people from each Cranston neighborhood incarcerated as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020: This is the population of the Cranston neighborhood as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020: This is the total population of the Cranston neighborhood as reflected in the 2020 Census plus the incarcerated population.
Incarceration rate 100,000: This is the number of incarcerated people divided by the total population and then multiplied by 100,000. It allows ready comparison of the frequency of incarceration between each Cranston neighborhood of different population sizes.