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Results for foster care (california)
1 results foundAuthor: McCarthy, Sara Title: State Survey of California Prisons, What Percentage of the State's Polled Prison Inmates Were Once Foster Care Children? Summary: A significant percentage of the nation’s foster care youth have been accused of crimes or have had contact with law enforcement within the first few years after they turned 18 years old (the age at which most children “age out” of foster care1 and some become homeless), according to recent studies. A University of Chicago study found that one-third of the former foster care children who were tracked in three Midwest states suffered a “high level” of involvement with the criminal justice system. Such findings have prompted California policymakers and researchers to ask the question that initiated this report: How many inmates in California’s adult prisons were once foster care children? A state survey of California inmates conducted for the first time by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in collaboration with the California Senate Office of Research (SOR) offers significant findings: Of the 2,564 adult California prisoners surveyed by CDCR in June 2008, 356 of the respondents —14 percent of the inmates—said they had been in foster care at some point in their lives. This SOR/CDCR survey is unique; in the majority of studies conducted on this subject, surveyors asked foster care children who had recently left their foster care arrangement if they had ever been incarcerated, whereas in this survey, California prison inmates who were about to be paroled were asked if they had ever been in foster care. When this survey was conducted in the summer of 2008, there were approximately 171,000 inmates incarcerated in California’s prison system; only those inmates who were being paroled for the first time from prison within the next eight months and who completed the survey and reported a foster care history were tabulated in the following survey results. (For more information on how the SOR/CDCR survey was conducted, please see the Survey Methodology section on page 11.) Details: Sacramento, CA: California Senate Office of Research, 2011. 12p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 15, 2012 at http://www.sor.govoffice3.com/vertical/Sites/%7B3BDD1595-792B-4D20-8D44-626EF05648C7%7D/uploads/Foster_Care_PDF_12-8-11.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.sor.govoffice3.com/vertical/Sites/%7B3BDD1595-792B-4D20-8D44-626EF05648C7%7D/uploads/Foster_Care_PDF_12-8-11.pdf Shelf Number: 124969 Keywords: Foster Care (California)Prisoners (California) ` |