{"id":2879,"date":"2011-03-18T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder-new\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:21:44","slug":"justice-for-children-whose-parents-are-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2011\/03\/justice-for-children-whose-parents-are-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for children whose parents are in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/restorative-justice\/files\/2010\/12\/Children_of_Prisoners_-_Cover_-_Draft_4-1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Will-Happen-Howard-Zehr\/dp\/1561486892\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1292002299&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-823 alignright\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/restorative-justice\/files\/2010\/12\/Children_of_Prisoners_-_Cover_-_Draft_4-11-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Three million children in the United States are estimated to have one or both parents in prison.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is some information about these children:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 in 15 African American children has a parent in prison.\u00a0 For white children the figure is 1 in 110.<\/li>\n<li>ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ half of parents in prison have never had a personal visit from their children.<\/li>\n<li>Half of children with an incarcerated mother live with their grandmother.<\/li>\n<li>Children of prisoners are 5 times more likely to go to prison themselves than other children.<\/li>\n<li>Common reactions include feelings of guilt, shame and loss; fear of abandonment and loss of support; anxiety; attention disorders; traumatic stress and even post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/li>\n<li>Longer-term results can include maturation regression as well as reduced ability to cope with stress and trauma.<\/li>\n<li>The associated stress and trauma often results in both short and long term mental health, behavioral and educational issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The impact of prisons on families has been called the collateral damage of crime and of our justice policies.\u00a0 Nell Bernstein, in her important book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Alone-World-Children-Incarcerated\/dp\/1595581855\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1292005016&amp;sr=1-1\">All Alone in the World<\/a>,<\/em> states it eloquently:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These children have committed no crime, but the price they are forced to pay is steep. They forfeit, too, much of what matters to them:\u00a0 their homes, their safety, their public status and private self-image, their primary source of comfort and affection.\u00a0 Their lives are profoundly affected&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Will-Happen-Howard-Zehr\/dp\/1561486892\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1292002299&amp;sr=1-1\"><em><!--more-->What Will Happen to Me?<\/em><\/a> is intended to bring attention to these children.\u00a0 Rather than speak for them, Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz and I wanted to provide an opportunity for them to present themselves through their portraits and words.<\/p>\n<p>The book is also designed for those who care for these children:\u00a0 grandparents, teachers, social workers.\u00a0 Using a restorative justice framework, it concludes with an essay on the justice needs of these children.\u00a0 The appendix includes suggested resources and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcipp.org\/rights.html\">Bill of Rights for Children of the Incarcerated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also just off the press is a new edition of <em>Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences<\/em> that has been out of print<em> <\/em>for several years.<em> <\/em>The new edition contains a number of updates on people and statistics. The first book in the series is <em>Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More info:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org\/topics\/families\">The National Reentry Resource Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualpeacemakers.org\/index.php?\/documentaries\/photo_story\/what_will_happen_to_me\/\">More photos and stories<\/a> at VisualPeacemakers.org<\/li>\n<li>Story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/politics\/national\/whatwillhappentome.aspx\">Ebony online<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/dysonshow.org\/?p=3874\">Michael Eric Dyson Show<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[Editor&#8217;s note: This story is cross-posted from Howard&#8217;s restorative justice blog. Comments are closed here, but open on <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/restorative-justice\/2010\/12\/10\/justice-for-children-whose-parents-are-in-prison\/\">the original<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three million children in the United States are estimated to have one or both parents in prison.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is some information about these children: 1&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/2011\/03\/justice-for-children-whose-parents-are-in-prison\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Justice for children whose parents are in prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[789],"tags":[282,885,557],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-howard-zehr","tag-lorainne-stutzman-amstutz","tag-restorative-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}