Corrections during Incarceration

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In this article, the writer discusses that the development of sustainable programs to keep children and incarcerated parents connected is crucial to the elimination of a serious generational risk pattern, as children with limited positive influence from parents and other caretakers tend to elicit limited positive decision making. The writer maintains that women and their families must be offered sustainable programs that encourage sustainable and successful transition out of prison. The writer looks at a project/program that revolves around the concept of a homework study buddy program involving the incarcerated mother and her child. The writer looks at such a program for the benefit of the children of such inmates, that have a dire need for some semblance of a relationship with their mothers' to stave off feelings of desertion and also develop as normal as possible concepts of the changes that are occurring in the lives of their mothers' while they are incarcerated.

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"Mothers and children have historically been separated from one another during incarceration of women as a logical aspect of the punishment in which women endure as a result of crime. Yet, it is just recently that the social work, psychology, education and criminal justice systems have become aware and interested in the difficulties this separation creates not for the adult mother's but for the children they leave behind. Additionally the time the mother's lose with their children can often not be made up later, and social and emotional destruction can have a permanent effect on the relationship, this fact also in many cases outweighs the fact that children experience stress when visiting parents in prison."

Sample of Sources Used:

• The Bright Side of Prison. (2003, Summer). The Wilson Quarterly, 27, 97.
• Conley, A. C. (2006). Renny Golden, War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 33(3), 192.
• Golden, R. (2004) War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families they Leave Behind. New York: Routledge.
• Hale, T. (2001, February). Creating Visions and Achieving Goals: The Women in Community Service's Lifeskills[TM] Program. Corrections Today, 63, 33.
• Winifred, M. (1996, August). Vocational and Technical Training Programs for Women in Prison. Corrections Today, 58, 168.

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