Children of Incarcerated Parents

Group: University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center

URL: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/19/2summer2002/b_parents.html

Description

Despite the enormous growth in the U.S. prison population, particularly in the number of women incarcerated, very little is known about children, either in the country as a whole or in Alaska, who now have at least one parent in jail. While there are some national estimates of the number of prisoners who are parents of minor children, in Alaska the Department of Corrections has no firm figures. If Alaska figures parallel available national estimates, several thousand children currently have at least one parent in the state’s prisons.

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corrections, inmates, children of incarcerated parents

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