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6 results foundAuthor: Barefoot Research and Evaluation Title: Keeping Prisoners and Their Families Together Summary: This report is a follow-on from research that was completed in 2005 that looked at what prisons in the North East were doing to support relationships between parents in prison and their families. This research is intended to: contribute to the work in the region’s prisons that supports the children and families of prisoners; and inform the wider Reducing Re-offending Strategy and Delivery Plan. This research has a number of objectives. It seeks the reaction to the original research findings from the prisons that were involved and invites detailed feedback. It also provides these prisons with the opportunity to indicate what developments there have been in their establishments in relation to work with prisoners and their families; It invites national agencies and academics to comment on the findings in relation to their own experiences, which serves as a national peer review; It gathers the reactions of the voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations who are part of the FSSP and determines their needs; It reviews current national and regional policy and practice; and It looks at the FSSP in relation to the other Pathways in the context of the RRAP. Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Northern Rock Foundation, 2007. 73p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 2, 2010 at: http://www.nr-foundation.org.uk/downloads/NRF%20PrisonersFamilies%20Report.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.nr-foundation.org.uk/downloads/NRF%20PrisonersFamilies%20Report.pdf Shelf Number: 120351 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of InmatesPrisoners' Families (U.K.) |
Author: Atella, Julie Title: Mentoring Children of Promise: Interim Evaluation Findings Summary: In 2007, there were more than 1.7 million children with a mother or father in jail or prison. More than 7 million children—approximately one tenth of the nation’s young people—had a parent under supervision by the criminal justice system. When parents are incarcerated, their arrest and imprisonment often have a profound, negative impact on their minor children. Generally impoverished to begin with, most children of prisoners become even poorer upon their parents’ arrest. They exhibit high rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and attention disorders. They are also at increased risk of homelessness, household disruption, school failure and delinquency. Numerous studies have shown that mentoring programs can have significant benefits for at-risk youth like children of prisoners. Mentoring increases the likelihood of regular school attendance and academic achievement. It also decreases the chances of engaging in self-destructive or violent behavior. A trusting relationship with a caring adult can often provide stability and have a profound life-changing effect on the child. Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans Mentoring Children of Promise (MCP) program has been providing mentoring services to children of incarcerated parents since 2004. The goal of this program is to create the right conditions for children of prisoners to reach their full potential. In 2010, Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans was awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a multi-year process evaluation of this program. VOA has contracted with Wilder Research to document the program’s service model and identify implementation factors that are most critical to the program’s success. Details: Saint Paul, MN: Wilder Research, 2011. 17p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 3, 2012 at http://www.wilder.org/Wilder-Research/Publications/Studies/Mentoring%20Children%20of%20Promise/Mentoring%20Children%20of%20Promise,%20Interim%20Evaluation%20Findings.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.wilder.org/Wilder-Research/Publications/Studies/Mentoring%20Children%20of%20Promise/Mentoring%20Children%20of%20Promise,%20Interim%20Evaluation%20Findings.pdf Shelf Number: 126865 Keywords: At-risk YouthChild WelfareChildren of InmatesChildren of PrisonersMentoring |
Author: Murphey, David Title: Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children? Summary: Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five million U.S. children have had at least one parent in prison at one time or another-about three times higher than earlier estimates that included only children with a parent currently incarcerated. This report uses the National Survey of Children's Health to examine both the prevalence of parental incarceration and child outcomes associated with it. - Details: Bethesda, MD: Child Right, 2015. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 21, 2016 at: http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-42ParentsBehindBars.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-42ParentsBehindBars.pdf Shelf Number: 138340 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of Prisoners |
Author: DeHart, Dana D. Title: The Impact of Incarceration on Families: A Single-Jurisdiction Pilot Using Triangulated Administrative Data & Qualitative Interviews Summary: This project utilizes three strategies to investigating the impact of incarceration on families. First, we tap into a powerful, statewide integrated data system to examine impacts of incarceration in a novel way, using administrative data from corrections, juvenile justice, mental health, social services, substance use services, healthcare, and education. Statewide corrections visitation data from male and female adult offenders are linked to multi-agency administrative data to create a de=identified data processing "cube" representing service utilization for focal prisoners (n = 18,786) and their visitors (n = 44,848) including children, married and unmarried partners, parents, siblings, and others. The cube allows authorized users to easily manipulate multi-agency data to answer queries and create visual displays through tables and graphs. Inclusion of time as a variable standardized to pre-incarceration, incarceration, and post-release periods allows cube users to explore impacts of incarceration on service utilization and outcomes for families. Second, we link multi-agency data to address specific research questions regarding impact of incarceration on families, including impact of incarceration on family physical and mental health, children's involvement with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, family receipt of economic services, and school performance. Third, we conduct focus groups and family interviews with 77 prisoners and 21 prisoner family members sampled from three correctional facilities. We identify qualitative themes regarding impact of incarceration in the lives of prisoners and their families. Here we summarize major points for each of our three strategies, with further detail available in published manuscripts, briefs, and presentations in the Appendix. Details: Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 2017. 159p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 6, 2017 at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250657.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250657.pdf Shelf Number: 144736 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of PrisonersPrisoners |
Author: Galdeano, Ana Paula Title: Brasil - Niños y niñas con madres y padres encarcelados por delitos de drogas menores no violentos (Brazil - Children with mothers and fathers imprisoned for non-violent minor drug offenses) Summary: This article addresses the specific situation of children and adolescents (NNA) with adult referents imprisoned for drug offenses in Brazil. The study of this problem is a challenging task due to the absence of official and academic information on how many They are and how these children live. In Brazil we found few studies on children with imprisoned parents (NNAPES, from here onwards) However, literature on the subject has increased in recent years (Braga and Angotti, 2015; Galdeano et al., 2018). In this sense, the bibliographical research of Ormenõ, Maia and Willians (2013) indicates that the Brazilian production on the subject is still small in comparison with the North American one; proof of this is that they only identified five scientific articles on the subject in question. In general, these works resort to theoretical references of psychology and seek to understand the impacts of incarceration on the affective dimension of the sons and daughters of people deprived of their freedom. In North America it has been identified that the impacts of incarceration imply issues such as social stigma, traumas derived from having witnessed the arrest of parents, regressive and antisocial behavior, early involvement in crime, feelings of anxiety, guilt, loneliness and abandonment, low self-esteem, various disorders in feeding, sleep and attention, among others (Cunningham and Baker, 2003; Johnston, 1995; apud Ormenõ, Maya and Willians, 2013). It should be noted that the English-language works are focused, above all, in the children of imprisoned women. In addition, in Latin America some studies have been carried out to know the reality of the NNAPES, which includes various recommendations in this regard. An important contribution to the debate is found in the research coordinated by Church World Service and Gurises Unidos (2013) on the social, economic and affective impacts of this problematic in the region. Inspired by this initiative, in Brazil we conducted an investigation - supported by the Articulation of Movements of the Rights of Children and Adolescents- in the 36 children and adolescents participated with relatives deprived of their liberty for different crimes (Galdeano et al., 2018). Because it is not a representative sample, the results obtained are not generalizable to the total population of NNAPES. However, our findings indicate that the family and community life in poor territories is strongly crossed by the Imprisonment phenomenon. Especially, we find that the reality of prisons precedes the moment of incarceration, since among the children interviewed, seven (19.4%) witnessed the detention of their relatives, six (16.6%) observed beatings by the police and one witnessed the exchange of gunfire. These situations clearly reveal the forms of frightening, humiliating and shameful treatment that children receive from the State during the detention of their relatives, all of which contravenes the provisions of the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent (Brazil, 1990: Article 18). Likewise, we observe that the imprisonment of adolescents and adults is an experience common among neighbors, friends and acquaintances of the children interviewed (14 of them (38.8%) reported having adolescent friends deprived of freedom in the socio-educational system). Details: Church World Service, 2018. 45p. Source: Internet Resource; Accessed May 16, 2019 at: http://www.cwslac.org/nnapes-pdd/en Year: 2019 Country: Brazil URL: Shelf Number: 155870 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of PrisonersRights of Children |
Author: Torres Quintero, Astrid Title: Colombia - Ninos y ninas con madres y padres encarcelados por delitos de drogas menores no violentos ( 103/5000 Colombia - Children with mothers and fathers imprisoned for minor non-violent drug offenses) Summary: In Colombia, there are currently 115,862 people deprived of their liberty, despite the fact that The capacity of the institutions of confinement is for 79,211 (INPEC, 2018). This situation of overcrowding generates multiple violations of human rights, recognized by the Court Constitutional, that declared an "unconstitutional state of affairs" in prison matters, is say, a serious and massive situation of violation of rights for the private population of the freedom, derived from multiple factors and that, for its improvement, requires actions of all the competent institutions (Constitutional Court of Colombia, 2013 and 2015). However, the recognition of the serious situation suffered by people who are in seclusion does not imply the visibility of other subjects who suffer the impacts of imprisonment, as are families and, especially, children and adolescents (NNA, from now on) whose parents are deprived of freedom, for which reason they are out of focus of attention for making decisions both in terms of prison policy, and in the field of policies aimed at protecting the rights of children and adolescents. In the case of non-violent drug-related crimes, despite the fact that there has been debate over the impact of criminal treatment mainly on the people who carry out the traffic and sale of psychoactive substances, because of the vulnerability that characterizes them, little has been said about their family contexts and the effects they may suffer as a consequence of imprisonment. This invisibility is serious in the Colombian context, where the drug trafficking has especially impacted on family and community relations, not only as a consequence of this activity in itself, but also because of the effect that the hardening of sentences and the premise that they should focus on the use of prison. Therefore, although the vulnerability of persons deprived of their liberty is recognized and, in As a consequence, penal and penitentiary policies are questioned (for example, in terms of use of preventive detention and toughening of sentences in some crimes), these questions do not include analyzes related to the affectations suffered by children and adolescents as a result of the imprisonment of their parents. Several studies allow us to conclude that the populations that suffer the most the consequences of this criminal hardening are those that are in conditions of vulnerability, as women, who usually participate in the stages of transport and sale. However, these investigations do not delve into the effects that deprivation of liberty has on children and adolescents, with the exception of some mentions that are reached as a consequence of the observation of the situation of women who are mothers and are imprisoned. Details: Church World Service, 2018. 52p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 16, 2019 at: http://www.cwslac.org/nnapes-pdd/docs/PDD-Colombia.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.cwslac.org/nnapes-pdd/docs/PDD-Colombia.pdf Shelf Number: 155873 Keywords: Children of InmatesDrug OffendersDrug TraffickingFamilies of PrisonersHuman Rights AbusesPrison PolicyRights of Children |