*Please note: This page is still in progress. More links will be posted soon.*
This literature section covers topics ranging from mass incarceration to visitation between children and their incarcerated parents.
This page includes policy reports, social research, law reviews, and articles. They explore considerations and best practices when maintaining child-parent relationships during parental incarceration. To simplify resources listed here, all reports published in and before 2014 have been compiled into two bibliographies, both of which can be found here:
Bibliography of Resources 2009-2014
Bibliography of Resources before 2009
These pages listed below contain resources primarily published in 2015 to the present.
Harm of Removal (external link)
This external link contains a collection of resources gathered by the Washington Courts Family and Youth Justice Programs. It is focused on the harms of removal in the dependency court context but is applicable to other families experiencing family separation.
Family Policing & TPR (Termination of Parenting Rights)
Parental Incarceration and Child Well-Being
Pregnant People & Incarceration