Wednesday, September 3, 2008

a timely BJS report

timely because i have been working on this issue for a while now. the report: Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children

highlights:
  • The nation’s prisons held approximately 744,200 fathers and 65,600 mothers at midyear 2007.
  • Parents held in the nation’s prisons—52% of state inmates and 63% of federal inmates—reported having an estimated 1,706,600 minor children, accounting for 2.3% of the U.S. resident population under age 18.
  • Growth in the number of parents held in state and federal prisons was outpaced by the growth in the nation’s prison population between 1991 and midyear 2007.
  • if only i had time to read it.

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