The Poor , Prison and The Street
By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Sun Jan 12, 2003 at 05:02:00 AM EST
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Posted on Sun Jan 12, 2003 at 05:02:00 AM EST
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For many of the poor, family life revolves around prison and the street. "In... the poorest communities around the country, prison is now a well-established rite of passage. A 2000 study by the U.S. Department of Justice found that about half of the nation's inmates are parents of children under 18. The study also found that almost 1.5 million children had a parent in prison, an increase of more than 500,000 children since 1991."
The Sunday Magazine of the New York Times has the story of two of these teen parents, Toney and Lolli, written by Adrian LeBlanc, who has "hung out" with them, in the journalistic sense, for the past ten years. A great read.
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