Did you know?….

• The majority of incarcerated men are fathers
  • Turner & Peck (2002) identified 93% of incarcerated parents who are fathers.
• Most of the incarcerated fathers are non-violent offenders
• The majority of them have short-term sentences
• Many of them have problems with literacy
• Child Support Obligations Don’t Stop during Incarceration
• Children of prisoners are five times more likely to end up in prison (Mazza, 2002).

Here is the dilemma this Father’s day…

• Will these children EVER have fathers?
• What will there futures be like with possibly no MALE role models?
• Can we hear their DISTRESS SIGNAL?
• How can we get our ARMS around this major problem?
• Is there really Justice, for a poor man, in the American Legal System?

I don’t have the answers to the above questions. Do you have a passion about this issue one way or the other? Let me hear from you on this “Hot Topic!”