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US Government Closing Federal Private Prisons When the news was released earlier this week that the US government would be taking back and closing federal private prisons run by private companies there were differing opinions as to whether this was a good idea or not. Most say it’s been a long time coming based on research and reports stating that the private prisons had more incidents and were not as safe and secure as public federal prison. Others stated […]
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Volunteers of America Support Info for Children with an Incarcerated Parent, Prisoner Families and the Community The article below was submitted by Alanna Norman, Communications Coordinator for Volunteers of America Indiana. Volunteers of America provides support programs including housing and senior care to people across America and have helped prisoner families. Alanna wrote to us: I think that having a blog community for families affected by incarceration is a great idea. We have a few blog posts […]
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Human Rights Defense Center Publication: Prison Legal News When your loved one is in prison having reading material not only helps the time go by, but if it is something pertinent to the legal system it can also be helpful. During the 15 years that my brother was in prison he read Prison Legal News and would send me interesting articles to read. There was a lot of helpful information for him in those articles, but […]
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How Fathers Celebrate Father’s Day in Prison This Father’s Day there will be many children missing their dads. They may be able to visit him in prison if it falls on a visitation day, however others may not have that benefit. Thanks to Google and the non-profit organizations Pops the Club and Place4Grace in California, they created a program for children to send Father’s Day videos to their father’s in prison. The USA Today’s article, Google helps kids […]
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Number of Children of Incarcerated Parents In 2007 it was estimated there were 1.7 million6 children of incarcerated parents, or with a parent in prison, in the U.S. In 2013 the number increased by a million to 2.7million2,4,5. Today there are more than 5 million8,9 children with at least one parent in prison. Imagine what it feels like for the children of incarcerated parents visiting their parent in prison. These children suffer more mental, physical and behavioral […]
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A Mom’s Story My daughter, Delores, was on the wrong path for many years. My husband, our adult children, and I agreed that she should no longer live with us. She had signed herself into a local mental health facility where she was being treated for bipolar disorder and drug addiction. So she wasn’t living with us at the time we received the call. When she called she was hysterical and cried, “MOM, I killed […]
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