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When a Father is Incarcerated, Esme

Coparenting with Your Incarcerated Partner, Esme

Children’s Services Practice Notes, 12/16

HHS and DOJ Host Listening Session With Youth Who Have an Incarcerated Parent, Children’s Mental Health Network, 8/10/16

Life with Gracie: Making prison visitations more family-friendly, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2/23/16

2.7 Million Kids Have Parents In Prison. They're Losing Their Right To Visit, The Nation, 12/21/15

Why Children with Parents in Prison Are Especially Burdened, The Atlantic, 12/14/15

What About Us, Type Investigations, 12/2/15

For Mama by Demaryius, The Players' Tribune, November, 2015

Children Of Incarcerated Parents More Likely to Struggle at School, neaToday, Study Finds, 11/23/15

How Parental Incarceration Affects a Child’s Education, The Atlantic, 11/11/15

FCC Ruling Caps Prison Phone Call Prices, May Enable More Inmate Contact with Families, Anson Record, 10/30/2015

Parents Behind Bars: What Happens To Their Children? childtrends.org, October 2015

What's Going on with Prison Reform in America? CNN.com, 10/21/2015

Tip Sheet for Teachers (Pre K through 12): Supporting Children With An Incarcerated Parent, Youth.gov, 10/7/2015

Incarcerated Mothers Targeted for United Way Parenting Workshop, The Daily Item, 10/2/2015

Handcuffed While Pregnant, New York Times, 9/23/15

Meet Melissa Radcliff: Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents, WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio, 9/28/2015

What Incarceration Costs Family Members, The Atlantic, 9/15/15

A Weight Lifted, A Weight Rewarded: With His Father Out Of Prison, Elon Defender Looks Forward To His First Game In Front Of Him, The Times News, Burlington, NC, 8/31/2015

When Parents Are In Prison, Kids Pay The Price, KALW 91.7 Public Radio, San Francisco, 8/11/2015

Reducing the Effects of Incarceration on Children and Families, Center for Poverty Research, University of California Davis, 8/5/2015

Prison Born, The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2015

Kids With Incarcerated Parents Find Support,Encouragement With This Brooklyn Program, Huffington Post, 6/23/2015

What It's Like To Spend Father's Day In Prison, Huffington Post, 6/20/15

Creating Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration: A Win-Win for Parents and Children, Truthout, 6/6/15

Prison, Parents, Pains, Stowe Report, 3/12/15

Seven Out of Ten? Not Even Close, Central Connecticut State University, March 2015

Parents' Incarceration Takes Toll on Children, Studies Say, Education Week, 2/24/15

For Some Mothers In Prison, A Sentence Doesn't Mean Separation, NPR, 2/22/15

How A Parent's Incarceration Mentally And Emotionally Scars Their Children, HuffingtonPost, 2/20/15

The Rise of Prison Nurseries, Pacific Standard, 2/18/15

Why We Need to Care About Children With Incarcerated Parents, HuffPost, 1/20/15

Parent Incarceration Can Be Worse For a Child Than Divorce or Death of a Parent, Phys.org, 8/6/14

When a Parent Goes to Prison, a Child Also Pays a Price, NPR, 6/8/14

At Prison, A Knitting Class That Isn’t Necessarily About Knitting, Washington Post, 4/24/14

Boys with Incarcerated Fathers are Screwed Before They Even Get to School, Vox, 4/24/14

Phoning From Prison, at Prices Through the Roof, The New York Times, 2/1/14

Mom, grandma root for Broncos star Thomas from prison, The New York Post, 1/27/14

Children Are Collateral Victims When Mom Serves Time, Rutgers Academic Finds, 12/17/13

Writing My Songs: Shaka Senghor at TEDxMidwest, TEDx Talks, YouTube, 11/26/2013

The Changing American Family, The New York Times, 11/25/13

NCAEYC Milestones, Fall 2013 page 11

NC Now, UNC-TV, 7/31/13

After 19 Years, The Week, 6/7/13 

A father-daughter dance — in jail, The Washington Post, 3/20/13

Knitting Behind Bars': Inmates Escape Prison Life With Yarn - ABC News, 1/15/13

The 'Silent Victims' of Incarceration, CNN - 11/26/12

The Messages Project: Maintaining the Child/Parent Bond During Parental Incarceration - Pediatric Nursing - July/August 2012

Community Voices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 8/3/12

Keeping Kids Connected With Their Jailed Parents - NPR - 7/18/12

The Monster That Won’t Stop Coming - Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College - 2012

Miss America Confronted Family Pain with Pageant, CBS Minnesota, 1/15/12

The Texas Observer – Babysteps - 1/9/12

Report from the Joint State Government Commission - The Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children: Needs and Responsive Services, 12/11

Stanford University Alumni Magazine – Helping Moms Behind Bars - November/December 2011

Helping Parents Behind Bars be Parents, Gotham Gazette - 8/23/11

A Call to Action: Safeguarding New York’s Children of Incarcerated Parents A report of the New York Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents – 5/11

Making Contact, The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars, 4/5/11

National Women’s Law Center - Report from the Rebecca Project for Human Rights Mothers Behind Bars Report - 10/10

Prison Shouldn't be a Bar to Motherhood - WeNews - 7/25/10

Mara Schiavocampo Reports: Mothers behind bars - The Grio - 4/12/10

The US women shackled during childbirth - BBC - 1/9/10

Prisoners of Parole - New York Times - 1/8/10

Breastfeeding in the Big House, Marie Claire, November 2009

Prison Nursery Programs a Growing Trend in Women’s Prisons - Corrections.com - 7/13/09

Giving Life, Wearing Shackles and Chains - New York Times - 7/10/09

In Prisoners' Wake, a Tide of Troubled Kids - New York Times - 7/4/09

Incarcerated Women Face Hurdles Re-Entering Society - NPR - 6/22/09

Should Female Inmates Raise Their Babies in Prison? Newsweek - 5/14/09

Why We Must Fix Our Prisons - Parade Magazine - 3/29/09

One in 31 - Pew Center Report - March 2009

8 Months Old and Behind Bars - ABC News - 1/25/09

Lullabies Behind Bars - Ms. Magazine - Fall 2008

Project WHAT! Resource Guide for Teens with a Parent in Prison or Jail, Community Works West, May 2008

The Pew Center on the States - One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008

Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University - Columbia Population Research Center, Columbia University: Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing in Fragile Families, 4/08

In Prison, Toddlers Serve Time With Mom, 12/31/07, New York Times

A Law’s Fallout: Women in Prison Fight for Custody – Wall Street Journal - 2/27/06 

Parenting Behind Bars, New York Times, 4/11/04 – New York Times, 4/11/04

Mom (and Kids) Behind Bars - People - 11/3/03

Legal Barriers Daunting for Ex-con Parents, The Times/Beaver Newspaper, 7/15/02

Left Behind, Mother Jones, 7/10/01