Children of the Incarcerated
September 26th, 2007What’s it like to be a parent in prison knowing your children are growing up without you? There are approximately 90,000 children just in … all » Illinois with parents in jail or prison or on probation or parole.
Tonight on Community, Media & You, we discuss the campaign and talk with two former offenders. Our guests are Alden Loury of the Chicago Reporter, and former offenders Manuel Feliciano and Andrew Atchison
www.colum.edu
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
[…] by incarceration. It’s the same fate of more than 2 million children across the nation. In Illinois, nearly 90,000 children have a parent in prison or a parent who recently left prison. As Beaty tells us, that pain can last for decades — and it doesn’t instantly dissolve […]