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NY Times: article on the effects of mass incarceration on the families of people who have been incarcerated

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

This is an extremely narrow view...still I thought you might want to read it and check out the graph. And, of course, comments can be made on the NY Times website and letters to the editor. Lois In Prisoners? Wake, a Tide of Troubled Kids By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: July 4, 2009 NY Times graph and other information at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05prison.html?_r=1&ref=us WASHINGTON ? Herbert Rashad Scott, whose parents were in and out of prison throughout his childhood, vowed to break his family?s cycle of self-destruction. The circumstances were not promising. Mr. Scott, 20, was awaiting sentencing for drug possession and robbery, but he was allowed supervised release from jail in May to attend a job preparation class ? a chance to turn his life around...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 05, 2009 (boomark / email).