The Word Is Love
is a production of Circle T Communications
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Producer|Director | Marika Turano | 917.969.6837 | email: mturano@aol.com

Some important facts:

There are an estimated 2.3 million children who have a parent in jail.
Bureau of Justice Statistics.

More than 7 million children have a parent under some form of correctional supervision.  
Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Since 1991, the number of children with parents in prison has increased by more than 50 percent. Children of Incarcerated Parents.

22% of all minor children with a parent in prison were under 5 years old.
US Department of Justice.

Children of incarcerated parents will spend an average of 6 years 8 months separated from them. Aid to Children of Incarcerated Mothers, Inc.

As many as half of all boys whose parents do time will wind up behind bars themselves.
All Alone in the World, Nell Bernstein.

Children of incarcerated parents are 6 to 10 times more likely to the end up in prison than the average for young people.
New York Amsterdam News, 2006.