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Number of people in prison in 2020 from each Connecticut Senate district

Senate Districts Number of people in state prison from each Senate district, 2020 Census population, 2020 Total population, 2020 Imprisonment rate per 100,000
District 1 720 94,479 95,199 756
District 2 715 95,913 95,768 747
District 3 267 99,964 100,231 266
District 4 204 102,881 103,085 198
District 5 73 98,983 99,056 74
District 6 525 97,776 98,301 534
District 7 116 101,204 95,996 121
District 8 143 98,538 98,681 145
District 9 163 101,245 101,408 161
District 10 857 96,715 96,926 884
District 11 393 95,706 96,099 409
District 12 66 97,405 97,471 68
District 13 277 98,684 98,961 280
District 14 130 94,966 95,096 137
District 15 986 104,093 105,079 938
District 16 224 102,388 101,256 221
District 17 251 100,433 100,684 249
District 18 188 99,206 99,394 189
District 19 287 98,728 97,880 293
District 20 304 96,136 95,671 318
District 21 134 103,132 103,266 130
District 22 342 100,585 100,927 339
District 23 1,085 99,338 99,780 1,087
District 24 192 103,889 103,024 186
District 25 180 101,594 101,774 177
District 26 32 102,322 102,354 31
District 27 258 104,835 105,093 246
District 28 46 104,779 104,269 44
District 29 277 104,548 104,418 265
District 30 161 104,454 104,615 154
District 31 279 99,747 100,026 279
District 32 92 104,874 104,966 88
District 33 85 98,299 98,384 86
District 34 99 96,510 96,609 102
District 35 193 97,513 97,706 198
District 36 31 104,082 104,113 30

Sources and methodology

Senate Districts
This is the Connecticut Senate district as drawn in 2021.
Number of people in state prison from each Senate district, 2020
This is the number of people from each Senate district in state prison as of 2020. See the methodology section of the report.
Census population, 2020
This is the population of the Senate district as reported in the 2020 Census.
Total population, 2020
This is the total population of the 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 Senate district of different population sizes.


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