Thursday, April 5, 2007
Inside Curran-Fromhold Prison, Northeast Philadelphia. Francesca Heintz wrote a piece in this week's CP about the growing number of children growing up with incarcerated parents.
"More than 2 million children have a parent in prison, and statistics say they're up to six times more likely to go down that same road than other children. These are big numbers that help explain overcrowding, outdated prison buildings, overworked staffs and shockingly high recidivism rates that plague corrections systems nationwide."
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