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New York Report Matches National Study Results
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1991, page 5
A study released in October of 1990 found that nearly one out of every four young black men in New York state is under the control of the criminal justice system on any given day. The results of the joint study by the Correctional Association of New York and the …
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