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ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY
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Children with Incarcerated Parents and the Effect it has on American Community
Victoria D Neal
California Baptist University
Many jails house inmates with children. The amount of children with parents in
incarceration is estimated at about one million and seven hundred thousand (Bureau of Justice,
2010, p. 1). There are not many programs that help children with parents in prison. Children are
affected negatively when their parent or parents are incarcerated. It can affect a child if anyone