Formerly incarcerated Californians are each being robbed of as much as $200 by the state as they are released from prison, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County. 

The civil complaint alleges that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR, has wrongfully withheld some or all of the reentry funds called “gate money” from over a million people who were released from prison since 1994. 

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