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The realties of family values in prison nation

By Douglas A. Berman

Yesterday I received via e-mail this new about a notable new report from the folks atThe Sentencing Project: A new analysis by The Sentencing Project highlights the growth in the number of incarcerated parents and their children since 1991.  Incarcerated Parents and Their Children: Trends, 1991-2007 reviews data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and documents the growing impact of incarceration on children and families. As of 2007, 1.7 million children had a parent in prison, an 82% increase from the figure of 936,000 in 1991.  The racial/ethnic variation among this group is quite broad: 1 in 15 African-American children has a parent in prison, as does 1 in 42 Latino children and 1 in 111 white children. Due to the distance from home in which many parents are incarcerated ? 62% of parents in state prisons are more than 100 miles from home ? visits from children are declining over time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).