Making more people aware of how mass incarceration is achieved through excessive sentencing for low level crimes will help to activate citizens to make changes. We must do more.
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Check out this Sesame Street Interactive Toolkit for activities, videos and ideas on how to work through challenging issues like coping with incarceration.
Through the Echoes of Incarceration Project, a group of young filmmakers with incarcerated parents set out to understand some of the hidden consequences of our nation’s approach to imprisonment. In their first film, Caring Through Struggle: Caregivers of Children with Incarcerated Parents, the crew journeyed to understand their childhood being brought up by grandparents, and by extension, the issues caregivers face when raising a child with an incarcerated parent. It involved tough questions, and some surprising realizations that a crew member had more in common with the grandmothers than he expected.(1)
Watch Visiting Day (Parts 2 and 3), which tells a story of how a parent’s incarceration impacts an entire family.
(1)Echoes of Incarceration Project
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Have you or someone you know been sentenced excessively for a low level offense? What happened? What do you think is being done to exempt this law? Share with us. We want to hear your story.
