Sunday, November 30, 2014
Children of Incarcerated Parents
I was very happy to come upon this link where Sesame Street did a short video of children visiting their parents in prison. The video reminded me of the lost look I saw on the faces of children each time I passed through visiting rooms when I worked in the prisons. It was this look that prompted me to start the program, FAMILY LITERACY @ YOUR LIBRARY.http://prisonlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/05/family-literacy-and-incarcerated-adults.html It also prompted me to write an article titled "Reflections...". http://olos.ala.org/columns/?p=121 Children with parents in prison sometimes drop out of school, end up in gangs, in poverty, and become addicted to drugs. The USA has over 2.7 million children with a parent in prison. As taxpayers, we pay a tremendous amount for mental health, drug addiction, incarceration.. I wonder when we as a society will get it that prison is not always the answer.
Inmates reading to their Children
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It is really nice information to the students
Glad to create awareness. Our tax dollars are spent on incarceration rather than on education. We rank low world wide in education. A lot of our current professionals, especially in the health field, are now from the more educated immigrants groups.
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