OJJDP FY 2014 looks to fund a Practitioner-Researcher Partnership to explore best practices in serving children of incarcerated parent through mentoring.
Report from the White House Sponsored listening session on Mentoring Children of Incarcerated Parents leads to funding for research and practice.
The Children of Incarcerated Parents blog is the first national blog dedicated to exploring the impact of parental incarceration on children and families. There are an estimated two million minor children in the United States who have an incarcerated parent. The incarceration of parents not only has a devastating and damaging impact on children, but it also affects their caregivers… continue reading
Best Practices Document released by the National Task Force on the Use of Restraints with Pregnant Women under Correctional Custody convened by the U.S. Department of Justice
In 2003, the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership distilled 8 rights from children’s experiences that would ensure their safety and well-being, with clear objectives of a policy reform framework. The rights were published and quickly became the guide for policy-makers and practitioners concerned about these children. These distinctive rights are not copyrighted, and are available to all who are seeking improvements in the lives of the children, a beautiful gift for us all.
This memorandum presents a summary of the findings from a survey of prison visitation policies in the fifty states and in the system run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”). We embarked on the project with two primary goals. First, we wanted to provide for relatively easy state-by-state comparisons across a group of common… continue reading
