How Prison Undoes Family Values
The exploding US prison population has seen huge growth in the number of children with a parent in prison – to terrible effect.
In the last 30 years or so, the rush to lock people up for ridiculously long sentences even for minor crimes has led to an explosion of the prison population. And as the majority of prisoners are also parents, the population of children with a father or mother in prison has also exploded. Since 1990, the number of children with a parent in prison has increased overall by 82%, and the number of incarcerated mothers has increased at almost twice the rate of ... Full Story »
Posted by Tanya J. Maurer
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