Mass Incarceration has harmful effects on society, especially the most vulnerable among us.
A 2020 child development study co-sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California at Irvine finds that parental incarceration has significant developmental impacts on children of incarcerated parents.
This could be the making of a state-created public health emergency, as about 2.6 million children have a parent who is incarcerated, and by age 14, experience a resident parent leaving for prison.
Impacts include extreme poverty, residential instability, and homelessness.
Read the study here.
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