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When Landreaux Yantz finished a prison term last summer, his sex offender status meant he could not live within 1,000 feet of a school — which, in his home of New York City, ruled out almost everywhere.
After serving a year and two months for a probation violation, Landreaux Yantz should have been able to walk out of a New York state prison last June. But officials would not let him leave. He wasn’t alone.
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