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Gloria Oladipo in New York

New York has paid record $322m to people wrongly incarcerated since 1989

The Rikers Island prison complex in the Queens borough of New York.
The Rikers Island prison complex in the Queens borough of New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

New York has paid out the most of any state in the US to people wrongly incarcerated, according to a new study.

The latest research was produced by High Rise Financial, a pre-settlement legal funding company.

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