Parents Behind Bars: The Impact on Children | A Special Report

David Murphey and P. Mae Cooper provide a report on the impacts of not only parents but our children and our communities (October, 2015). Since 1996, we have either provided direct services to the incarcerated parents, mentoring programs for the reentry, advocated to improve practices of services providers, established relationships to include FFCA Affiliates whose primary focus is service to those inside/outside prison walls. We have wrestled with how to do balance effective criminal justice system and stop the strategic fragmentation of families and destiny of millions of children through failed social policy and practices.   Parents Behind Bars What Happens to Their Children? released by Child Trends, Inc. provides new insights and existing realities to help others reduce the hovering of generational impacts of poverty and incarceration for millions of in-risk individuals in America. Five million U.S. children have had a parent incarcerated. Today, Child Trends released a report, Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children?, which reveals who these children are and what challenges they face. The report is the result of a study using data from the 2011-12 National Survey of Children’s Health. Read more here