,Parental Incarceration: How to Avoid a "Death Sentence" for Families

Parental Incarceration: How to Avoid a "Death Sentence" for Families


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Author(s): Tiffany Conway; Rutledge Q. Hutson

Research Area: Justice; Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

First published by the Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy in Summer 2007, this paper highlights a number of promising services and supports for incarcerated parents and recommends what attorneys representing or working with incarcerated parents and their children can do to minimize harm to children.