15th June 2003 The Ontario-based Center for Children & Families in the Justice System of the London Family Court Clinic has just published an exploratory study on the impact of maternal incarceration on children. Relying on a sample of 45 women and 90 children and adolescents in Ontario, “Waiting for Mommy: Giving a Voice to … Read more
15th April 2003 Under the “Big Book Share,” a new project launched recently at Magilligan Prison in County Londonderry, imprisoned fathers and their children can select a book together during a prison visit, which the father then records onto an audio tape. When the child returns to visit, he or she is presented with a … Read more
15th March 2003 KIDS VIP, a UK-based charity working to bolster the relationship between children and imprisoned parents, has officially joined the EUROCHIPS network. Founded in 1993, KIDS VIP currently operates with a staff of three, working with prisons to set up supervised play areas in prisons, promote good practice in the play areas, and … Read more
16th February 2003 Action for Prisoners’ Families is continuing its free hotline for prisoners’ families, funded by the Community Fund in the United Kingdom . The service provides information and support to relatives and friends of anyone incarcerated in England and Wales on such issues as visiting rights, how the prison system operates and how … Read more
15th February 2003 A new initiative to maintain child-parent ties for imprisoned mothers and father in Luxembourg is now under way in that country. Launched in 1996 to provide community-based structures to facilitate child-parent relationships, Service Treff-Punkt has extended its work into the Centre Pénitentiaire Luxembourg on behalf of children separated from imprisoned parents. They … Read more
17th November 2002 Eurochips member Bambini Senza Sbarre has published “Il tempo et lo spazio della relazione figli-genitori in carcere” (Dimensions of the Child-Parent Relationship in Detention), a book inspired by a national conference organized inside San Vittore Prison in Milan in collaboration with EUROCHIPS (2001). For information on how to obtain a copy : … Read more
4th June 2002 The first study in Ireland on the impact of a parent’s imprisonment on children was published in June 2002. The study, “Parents, Children and Prison: The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children,” was conducted at Dublin ‘s Mountjoy Prison by the Dublin Institute of Technology for the Society of St Vincent de … Read more
31st January 2002 A survey conducted by INSEE, the French national institute for statistics and economic studies, on the “Family Situation of Male Prisoners” (Synthèses, n° 59) was published in January 2002 and is now available. The survey focused on 1,700 male prisoners during the March 1999 census poll, for which 400,000 men and women … Read more
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