Children and Families of Prisoners
July 7th, 2009
| Categories: Children and Families, Law and Corrections, Poverty
| Tags: Child well-being, Incarceration
In prisoners’ wake, a tide of troubled kids, By Erik Eckholm, July 4, 2009, New York Times: “Herbert Rashad Scott, whose parents were in and out of prison throughout his childhood, vowed to break his family’s cycle of self-destruction. The circumstances were not promising. Mr. Scott, 20, was awaiting sentencing for drug possession and robbery, but he was allowed supervised release from jail in May to attend a job preparation class — a chance to turn his life around…”
