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3 The Pew Charitable Trusts, Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility, Washington, D.C.: The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010, 4, http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/PCS_Assets/2010/Collateral_Costs%281%29.pdf.

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