Picture an 11-year-old child running down the street after a police car screaming and begging the officer to let her father stay home. Meryam Bouadjemi recalls the somber quiet of …
“Children of Incarcerated Parents Also Serve Time”
From the age of five Adriana spent most of her childhood weekends and holidays in prison visiting her father. She felt that “It was the only place and time in …
Decline in Family Visitation Programs Adversely Affects Children of Incarcerated Parents
Two recent studies, in Minnesota and Florida, have shown that family visitation reduces recidivism. Nevertheless, in the “tough on crime” era of the 1990s, the family visitation programs begun in …