HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Families
How incarceration affects families
- Only 12 states have taken legislative action to address family separation by incarceration (Created: 2023)
- About half of people in state prisons are parents to children under 18 (Created: 2022)
- Women in state prisons are more likely to be separated from their children upon incarceration (Created: 2022)
- Incarcerated parents often grew up in struggling households (Created: 2022)
- The harms of mass incarceration span generations (Created: 2022)
- How do parents in state prisons maintain ties with their children? (Created: 2022)
- Two-thirds of parents in state prisons have never had a visit with their child. What are the barriers to visitation? (Created: 2022)
- Many people in state prisons grew up facing serious family, housing, economic, and educational challenges (Created: 2022)
- People in state prisons who received visitors were less likely to return to prison after release (Created: 2021)
- Black families are disproportionately impacted by incarceration (Created: 2021)
- People with incarcerated family members are less likely to report good physical and mental health than those with no family history of incarceration (Created: 2021)
- People with incarcerated immediate family members have reduced life expectancy (Created: 2021)
- Parents caught in the trap of unaffordable money bail (Created: 2018)
- Millions of children have fathers behind bars (Created: 2017)
- Almost 750,000 fathers are behind bars (Created: 2016)
