The New York Times, April 26, 2016: When Parents Are in Prison, Children Suffer
“She is just one of the five million American children who have had a parent incarcerated at some point in their lives. Her father’s sentence is hers, too. The most obvious impact of having a parent incarcerated is the absence of that parent from a child’s day-to-day life. But a report released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundationdescribes the many other devastating ways parental incarceration affects families, children and communities, and recommends that courts and policymakers consider the needs of children of incarcerated parents when making decisions about sentencing, correctional facilities, rehabilitation and the financial burdens of incarceration.”