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When a Father is Incarcerated, Esme
Coparenting with Your Incarcerated Partner, Esme
Children’s Services Practice Notes, 12/16
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
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
Incarcerated Mothers Targeted for United Way Parenting Workshop, The Daily Item, 10/2/2015
Handcuffed While Pregnant, New York Times, 9/23/15
What Incarceration Costs Family Members, The Atlantic, 9/15/15
When Parents Are In Prison, Kids Pay The Price, KALW 91.7 Public Radio, San Francisco, 8/11/2015
Prison Born, The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2015
What It's Like To Spend Father's Day In Prison, Huffington Post, 6/20/15
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
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
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
Stanford University Alumni Magazine – Helping Moms Behind Bars - November/December 2011
Helping Parents Behind Bars be Parents, Gotham Gazette - 8/23/11
Making Contact, The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars, 4/5/11
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
The Pew Center on the States - One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008
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