{"id":2537,"date":"2014-09-18T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:00:10","slug":"sesame-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/sesame-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street tells 2.7 million children they&#8217;re not alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, <a href=\"\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/john-oliver\/\">John Oliver did a hilarious episode<\/a> on prisons including a scene in which Oliver sings about prisons with Sesame Street muppets. A few days ago, thanks to a tweet by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncoalition.org\">Southern Coalition for Social Justice<\/a>, we got to see another, animated video from the Sesame Street series, <a href=\"https:\/\/sesamestreetincommunities.org\/topics\/incarceration\/\">\u201cLittle Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sesame Street Made A Clip For Kids Who Have A Parent In Prison. It\u2019ll Break Your Heart. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/95TZWuoCAR\">http:\/\/t.co\/95TZWuoCAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SCSJ (@scsj) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scsj\/status\/509376510135128064\">September 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a heartbreaking video and also an opportunity to get a glimpse into the life of a child with an incarcerated parent. Along with a series of videos with muppets and real kids\u2019 stories, the Sesame Street toolkit includes activities and tips for incarcerated parents, providers, and caregivers. We agree with John Oliver that it\u2019s great to see Sesame Street addressing mass incarceration, but it\u2019s beyond disturbing that our nation\u2019s failed policies and practices leave more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/~\/media\/legacy\/uploadedfiles\/pcs_assets\/2010\/CollateralCosts1pdf.pdf\">2.7 million children<\/a> with an incarcerated parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sesame Street&#8217;s series on incarceration, with videos, activities, and tips for parents, providers, and caregivers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13524,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}