Parenting From Prison
Most people know how the prison can destroy a life. One mistake can end their dreams and their remaining years to change forever. However, the emphasis is very little about what the prison effect on children of imprisoned parents.
The Sentencing Project, a national non-profit dedicated to research interests in issues of criminal justice policy, recently completed a study that focused on the destruction of stability for children of imprisoned parents has been and what can be done to help their education after the loss of a parent in the judiciary.
The project reported that many convicted, these children see their parents only rarely (s) during their detention and detained many parents say they never receive visitors, to all her children. The report also shows that these children are much more out of school and are in themselves destructive behaviors, sometimes to their detention.
According to the report, “In 2007 there was one. 7 million American children with a parent in prison, more than 70% of them were children of color … Many children have been particular in cases of detention of women with one parent and then by grandparents or other, though not supported in foster homes. ”
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