{"id":653,"date":"2008-08-27T18:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=653"},"modified":"2008-08-27T18:04:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T00:04:41","slug":"new-from-bjs-parents-in-prison-and-their-minor-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/08\/27\/new-from-bjs-parents-in-prison-and-their-minor-children\/","title":{"rendered":"new from bjs: parents in prison and their minor children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SLXpl2RkcDI\/AAAAAAAABpg\/zZwGTaHJMhA\/s1600-h\/parent.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239350577949077554\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SLXpl2RkcDI\/AAAAAAAABpg\/zZwGTaHJMhA\/s400\/parent.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>just released from the bureau of justice statistics:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:85%\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojp.usdoj.gov\/bjs\/abstract\/pptmc.htm\">Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nPresents data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities about inmates who were parents and their minor children. This report compares estimates of the number of incarcerated parents and their children under the age of 18, by gender, age, race, and Hispanic origin in state and federal prisons in 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, and 2007. It presents the total number of children who were minors at some time during their parent\u2019s incarceration. The report describes selected background characteristics of parents in prisons, including marital status, citizenship, education, offense type, criminal history, employment, prior experiences of homelessness, drug and alcohol involvement, mental health, and physical and sexual abuse. It provides family background of inmate parents including household makeup, public assistance received by household, drug and alcohol use, and incarceration of family members. It includes information on the children\u2019s daily care, financial support, current caregivers, and frequency and type of contact with incarcerated parents. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">The nation\u2019s prisons held approximately 744,200 fathers and 65,600 mothers at midyear 2007. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Parents held in the nation\u2019s prisons\u201452% of state inmates and 63% of federal inmates\u2014reported having an estimated 1,706,600 minor children, accounting for 2.3% of the U.S. resident population under age 18. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Growth in the number of parents held in state and federal prisons was outpaced by the growth in the nation\u2019s prison population between 1991 and midyear 2007. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just released from the bureau of justice statistics: Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children Presents data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities about inmates who were parents and their minor children. This report compares estimates of the number of incarcerated parents and their children under the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,156],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-prisons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}