Resources

Reports/Articles

These resources describe the experiences of parental incarceration, from loss of housing, financial instability, and missed educational opportunities, to issues youth face being in the foster-care system as a result of a parent’s incarceration. They also include policy and program solutions to help support children and their parents. For additional resources, visit nrccfi.camden.rutgers.edu.

Reports

• Children of Incarcerated Parents' Bill of Rights
• Measuring Intergenerational Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data
• Children Of Incarcerated Parents, A Shared Sentence
• Every Second
• We Are Not Collateral Consequences: Policy Solutions for CIP, From Arrest To Reentry
• Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives
• Children On The Outside: Voicing The Pain and Human Cost of Parental Incarceration
• Oregon Family Sentening Alternative Pilot Program Report

Articles

• Both sides of the bars: How mass incarceration punishes families
• Parents In Prison
• Over-Incarceration of Mothers Takes Serious Toll on Children
• Thousands of Fathers are Imprisoned - How Do We Help Their Kids?
• Unsupportive Environments and Limited Policies: Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Birth During Incarceration
• We Are Not Collateral Consequences: Children of Incarcerated Parents 
• Adoption and Safe Families Act: The “Crime Bill” of Child Welfare
• The Family and Offender Sentening Alternative: Our Most Under-Utilized Tool In The War On Crime