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All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
Nell Bernstein
An intimate and heartwrenching investigation into the lives of children of imprisoned parents, by an award-winning journalist.
New Press
October 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 1565849523
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
"I think they shouldn't have took my mama to
jail....Give her the opportunity to make up for what she
did. Using drugs, she's hurting herself. You take her away
from me, now you're hurting me."--Terrence, a fifteen-
year-old boy left to fend for himself after his mother was
imprisoned for nonviolent drug possession One in ten American children has a parent under criminal
justice supervision--incarcerated, on probation, or on
parole. One in thirty-three American children--and one in
eight African American children--goes to sleep without
access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite
these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain
largely invisible to society. Following in the tradition of the bestseller Random Family,
journalist Nell Bernstein shows, through the deeply moving
stories of real families, how the children of the
incarcerated are routinely punished for their parents'
status: ignored, neglected, stigmatized, and endangered,
with minimal effort made to help them cope. Topics range from children's experiences at the time of
their parent's arrest, to laws and policies that force even
low-level offenders to forfeit their parental rights, to
alternative sanctions that take into account prisoners'
status as mothers and fathers. All Alone in the World defines a crucial aspect of
criminal justice and, in doing so, illuminates a critical
new realm of human rights.
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