Eduardo Cuevas and Kayla Canne report in the Poughkeepsie Journal that now most incarcerated New Yorkers come from upstate, not New York City. In 2000, around 66 percent of New Yorkers incarcerated in state prisons came from New York City. That number has decreased to about 42 percent in 2020. "It's no longer something we can brush off as a New York City problem," said Emily Widra, a senior research analyst at the Prison Policy Initiative and an author of the report. "It's really affecting the whole state and communities in every county." VOCAL-NY's civil rights campaign director, Nick Encalada-Malinowski, says the shift is partially because New York City has some progressive reform policies, which the rest of the state lacks. “What’s happening for a lot of counties is they are incarcerating people rather than addressing any of their kind of immediate needs,” Encalada-Malinowski, said. “You have people especially in jail, but also in prison, just cycling through. No one’s actually addressing what got the person there.” Read the full story in the Poughkeepsie Journal.