Breaking the Cycle: Camps for Children of the Incarcerated Help a Hidden Population Heal
Sometime in the last decade, Episcopalians began to notice they were missing an important factor in criminal-justice reform – the children.
“Children of parents in prison are invisible,” said a U. S. Senate report. “No government entity is responsible for them.” There are 2.5 million children of incarcerated parents in this country; 1 in 7 children have a parent in prison, on probation or parole and in most cases they are a “hidden population,” says the sponsor of The Prisoner’s Family Conference of 2012.
Read more about the Episcopal Church's effort to reach out to children of incarcerated parents here...