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Children of color are more likely than their white counterparts to have a parent in jail. More specifically, while only 4% of white children experience a parent being incarcerated before their 14th birthday, 25% of African American children would have faced a parent being incarcerated before their 14th birthday.
Yet, the sense that children do not deserve to be exposed to criminal punishment in the same way as adults remains strong. Children have not had experience of life, nor do they have the same mental and intellectual capacities as adults. Hence, it might be considered unfair to treat young children in the same way as adults. [14]
In the United States, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, or PLRA, is a federal statute enacted in 1996 with the intent of limiting "frivolous lawsuits" by prisoners.Among its provisions, the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation, restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees (thus making fewer ...
Image credits: Restart_from_Zero #7. Not a former prisoner, but used to work in a job that involved the prison system: 1) The sheer volume of paperwork prisoners do every day.
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Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education is in its 25th year of helping children with parents in prison succeed through scholarships and mentoring.
A prison nursery is a section of a prison that houses incarcerated mothers and their very young children. Prison nurseries are not common in correctional facilities in the United States , although prior to the 1950s many states had them and they are widespread throughout the rest of the world.
"You don't have to give birth to someone to be their mother. I think that was the turning point for me. Think about all the motherly characters in your life and the influences.