Parents of 5 Million US Children Imprisoned: Report

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Alwaght- Over 5 million US children, or almost 7 percent, have had a live-in parent incarcerated, well above a previous estimate on parental imprisonment.
The analysis released this week by the non-profit Child Trends research group covers children up to 18 who have ever had a parent who lived with them sent to prison. The numbers were based on a 2011-12 survey by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
A 2007 estimate of children who currently had a parent in prison put the number at 1.7 million, or just over 2 percent. That estimate included non-residential parents, Child Trends said.
The report showed that black, poor and rural children were more likely to have had a residential parent go to jail or prison. Black children were about twice as likely as whites to have had a parent incarcerated.
Other research has shown links between parental imprisonment and childhood health and behavior problems, poor school performance and physical and mental health trouble in adulthood, the Child Trends study said.
The damage can be reduced by improving communication between the child and parent, reducing the stigma of incarceration and making prison visits more child-friendly, it said.
While the US represents nearly five percent of the world’s population, it imprisons about 25 percent of the global prison population, making it the world’s largest jailer, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Imprisonment of America's 2.3 million prisoners costs $24,000 per inmate each year and $5.1 billion in new prison construction.
Meanwhile, sixty percent of incarcerated people in the US are people of color. African-American males who have not completed high school and are under the age of 35 are more likely to be incarcerated than employed in the formal labor market.
“The U.S. prison population is largely drawn from the most disadvantaged part of the nation's population: mostly men under age 40, disproportionately minority, and poorly educated,” the report said.
This comes as the April jobs report released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the African-American unemployment rate stood at 11.6 percent, compared with the overall unemployment rate of 6.3 percent. The data also showed that the black jobless rate was more than twice the white jobless rate of 5.3 percent.

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