The American prison system is home to hundreds of thousands of detainees, Still we often forget the existing intimate connections shared between the incarcerated and their  communities.

As imprisonment continues to grow independent of violent crime, minority families face destructive emotional and financial hardships than span generations.

Bonds Between Bars aims to show the socioeconomic impact prison life can have on a family’s structure, and the disproportionate disadvantages it creates for people of color.