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Abigail Kramer
Reporter and writer
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09.22.010
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Collateral Damage: The impact of incarceration on American families
by Abigail Kramer
Thirty-five years after New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws inspired a national wave of mandatory-minimum sentencing statutes, America continues to lock up more people per capita than any other country.
I'm interested in how the nation's prolonged incarceration craze impacts American families. How do families maintain relationships when a member goes to prison? What happens when they don't? What's the impact on communities already destabilized by poverty and violence? What role does family disruption play in creating intergenerational cycles of incarceration?
Where the criminal justice and child welfare systems collide, there erupts a series of policy and practice that defy research, logic and common consensus, ricocheting chaos into the lives of prisoners, their children and their communities. In this body of work, I'll tell the stories of families trying to survive, down the rabbit hole.
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abigail.kramer at gmail.com
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