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An 18 page paper which examines the effects of incarceration on the family. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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them in life, when they leave one family and start another. The impact of family on the individual is incalculable. It often represents that fine and often imperceptible
line between success and failure. A family unit is dependent on its members for survival. Therefore, when a family member is incarcerated, the unit is altered and the
struggle to keep the unit intact becomes a formidable task. Unfortunately, in the United States, it is a challenge that is facing an ever-growing number of families. I.
Introduction According to 1990 statistics, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the entire world, four times higher than that of Great Britain and five times
higher than France (Reed and Reed, 1997). Currently, some 14 million people in America have been separated from their families as the result of imprisonment (Cose et al, 2000).
In fact, a 1991 survey of state prison inmates indicated that 60 percent of prisoners had been incarcerated previously (Reed and Reed, 1997, p. 152). This means their
family units have been profoundly affected by their incarceration and had to readjust to the lost of at least one of member on more than one occasion. As of
the year 2000, there were approximately 2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and because of harsher penalties, especially for drug-related offenses, more people than ever before are serving
longer prison sentences (Cose et al, 2000, p. 40). California and Texas have the largest individual concentration of prisoners in the United States. There is close to 240,000
people incarcerated in California and some 220,000 in Texas (an increase of 500 percent in the past 25 years), which means that more than half a million families are experiencing
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