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New report on the consequences for kids with parents in prison

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed on this webpage, the folks at the research organization Justice Strategies have a new report focused on the nearly two million minor children with a parent in prison.  The full report, which is available here, is titled "Children on the Outside: Voicing the Pain and Human Costs of Parental Incarceration."  Here is a snippet from the start of the executive summary: The pain of losing a parent to a prison sentence matches, in many respects, the trauma of losing a parent to death or divorce. Children ?on the outside? with a parent in prison suffer a special stigma. Too often they grow up and grieve under a cloud of low expectations and amidst a swirling set of assumptions that they will fail. Fifty-three percent of the 1.5 million people held in U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).