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Formerly incarcerated Black and Brown populations in New York a state with one of the country’s largest prison infrastructures lose more than $1.6 billion per year, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice.
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More than 330,000 people in New York State have been imprisoned at some point in their lives. Of that population, 145,800 are Black, and as a group, they lose $889.5 million in annual earnings; 104,600 are Latino and as a group, they lose
$749.9 million in annual earnings. “If you look at communities that have been disproportionately impacted by mass incarceration, you see disinvestment on the social service side and massive investment in incarcerating people,”