Child casualties in the Drug War
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Mother Jones
by George Sanchez
"With an estimated half-million American adults currently
behind bars on drug charges, child welfare and prison
reform activists have long warned that the War on Drugs
is inflicting enormous collateral damage on tens of
thousands of innocent bystanders: the children of
prisoners." (07/24/02)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/166418934.html

KEN-THANK YOU FOR THIS

THIS IS SO, SO IMPORTANT!!!

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PREVALENT PROBLEMS/ISSUES IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY. PEOPLE BETTER START PAYING ATTENTION OR IT WILL BE OUR ULTIMATE DOWNFALL

...underscores just how little data exists concerning the deeper economic, social and psychological cost of parental incarceration...


"For the most part, this population(THE CHILDREN OF INCARCEARTED PARENTS) is a silent voice in the political world," says Gwynnae Byrd, a consultant on prisons hired by the California legislature. "We only think about the punishment side of things. We don't think about the domino, the ripple effect that it has on all other people who are affected when somebody gets arrested and incarcerated


SOMEBODY NEEDS TO START THINKING ABOUT IT!!!

The was a good show on last night.
"The Drug War" "A war on our selves"

Sure was! John Stossel is really getting into stuff like this. I like his, "give me a break" with Barbara Walters.

I wonder if Veronica could get him interested in some of this prison stuff?