Families
How incarceration affects families
- Outcomes of 35 in-jail childbirths reported by media, 2013 - 2023 (Created: 2025)
- Most people are transferred to prisons of the same security classification or step down from maximum security (Created: 2025)
- Most prison transfers are for administrative, disciplinary, or other reasons — requested transfers are rare (Created: 2025)
- Prison transfers rise and fall as New York prison officials respond to COVID-19 and new "proximity laws" (Created: 2025)
- Only 12 states have taken legislative action to address family separation by incarceration (Created: 2023)
- Women in state prisons are more likely to be separated from their children upon incarceration (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)
- How do parents in state prisons maintain ties with their children? (Created: 2022)
- The harms of mass incarceration span generations (Created: 2022)
- Incarcerated parents often grew up in struggling households (Created: 2022)
- About half of people in state prisons are parents to children under 18 (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)
- People with incarcerated immediate family members have reduced life expectancy (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)
- Black families are disproportionately impacted by incarceration (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)
