Multiple Hardships
- Due to existing patterns of socio-economic isolation, many minority families face conditions of compounding deprivation make it harder for them build and maintain wealth with family members behind bars
- As a whole, 53% of incarcerated fathers had a personal income of under $1,000 in the month before arrest. 51% of mothers had monthly personal income below $600.
- With this income terminated, those incarcerated are able to work on work releases, but only earn a fraction of their previous earnings.
- Children of those behind bars often have to change their living arrangements.
Developmental disadvantages faced by children with incarcerated parents
- Impaired socioemotional development
- Rejection of behavioral limitations
- impaired response to trauma
- increased likelihood of intergenerational crime.
- In a very recent study children with incarcerated parents are also at greater risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular problems as adults.
