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There's an estimated 2000 children in Dane County with a parent in prison, 5M nationwide. They suffer from more adverse childhood experiences than any other pop
ulation of children suffering from disparities in our city. I wrote on this topic not because of Damien, but because of his father and and all of those other kids who've had a parent arrested and taken from the home at night yet ended up in the classroom the next morning expected to act like every other kid. As a Madison school's sub, I see kids playing out their trauma in the classroom everyday. It's heartbreaking and no one has the answers. I certainly don't. But here are the facts...Pat Dillon
http://isthmus.com/news/cover-story/who-looks-out-for-children-when-their-parents-go-to-prison/
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By Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiative
The story of women’s prison growth has been obscured by overly broad discussions of the “total” prison population for too long. This report sheds more light on women in the era of mass incarceration by tracking prison population trends since 1978 for all 50 states. The analysis identifies places where recent reforms appear to have had a disparate effect on women, and offers states recommendations to reverse mass incarceration for women alongside men. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/women_overtime.html 
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