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The Kids Get Pain
Gage, Beverly | February 20, 1995 issue

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The rise in female imprisonment, combined with the longer sentences served under mandatory drug sentencing laws, has yielded a population of 125,000 American children under 18 with mothers in prison on any given day. Factoring fathers into the equation, the number of children with incarcerated parents' tops 1.5 million. The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents, in Pasadena, California, estimates that altogether 10 million American children under 18 have had a parent behind bars. Children of incarcerated mothers suffer disproportionate disruption in their lives. In 1992 about 90 percent of fathers in state prisons reported that their children were living with the children's mothers.

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CHILDREN of women prisoners; WOMEN prisoners; IMPRISONMENT; PRISONERS' families; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; UNITED States
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