Over 1.5 million children in this country currently have one or
both of their parents incarcerated.
Since the early 1970s, the number of adults incarcerated in state
and federal prisons in the United States has continuously risen, placing
the current incarceration rate at 501 per 100,000 residents--The Urban
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