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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 5, 2023, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reinstated a parolee’s parental rights that had been stripped for lack of contact with his …
Brief • March 15, 2024
S.L. v. Sheriff Swanson, MI, Complaint, Prohibit of In-Person Visits, 2024 STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE 7th CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF GENESEE S.L.. T.L.L., T.L.. C.L.. M.L. J.L., N.L., D.L., and J-1.L. , by their next friend Onisha Lyle, Z.T.E .. Z.W., K.W. , by their next friend …
Brief • March 15, 2024
M.M. v. Sheriff King, MI, Complaint, Prohibit of In-Person Visits, 2024 STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE 3P CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF ST. CLAIR 1 M.M., by her next friend Danielle McDonald, C.P. and A.P., by their next friend Brianna Griffin, MARIE BILLS, and KATHLEEN TANTON, individually and on …
Article • July 30, 2020
Quarantine Fatigue vs. Escalating Prison Lockdowns (During COVID-19 & Black Lives Matter Protests) by Ava Martoma KidsMates, Inc. Blog Post By Ava Martoma, Age 13 Like much of America, I’m feeling quarantine fatigue. On the upside, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on … well, everything. Lately, George …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Virginia Governor Suspends Policy After Eight-Year-Old Strip Searched During Prison Visit by Bill Barton by Bill Barton On December 6, 2109, Governor Ralph Northam suspended a Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) policy that authorized strip searches of minors. An 8-year-old girl had been subjected to a strip search November 24, …
Publication • June 18, 2018
Understand Your Legal Issue-Florida Manual for Incarcerated Parents, Florida Institutional Legal Services, 2018 Understand Your Legal Issue Solve Your Legal Problem www.floridalawhelp.org Florida Manual for Incarcerated Parents Authored By: Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc This Manual is designed to help parents who are incarcerated in Florida prisons and jails understand …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Maine: Court Does Not Need Jurisdiction Over Prisoner to Issue Order to Protect Child by On August 29, 2017, the Maine Supreme Court affirmed the denial of a motion to dismiss a jeopardy order against the father of Emma B. Emma was a child living with her mother in Maine, …
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Washington Supreme Court Reverses Prisoner’s Parental Termination Order by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In January 26, 2017, a divided Washington Supreme Court held that a trial court could not terminate the parental rights of an incarcerated father without considering the facts of his incarceration as required by legislative amendments …
Article • August 22, 2017
Filed under: Visiting, Fathers in Prison
New York Court Rules Mother Not Required to Bring Child to Prison to Visit Incarcerated Father by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On October 20, 2016, a New York state appeals court upheld a ruling by a judge of the Family Court of Warren County denying a petition by an …
Article • August 22, 2017
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Termination of Incarcerated Father's Parental Rights, But Vacates Incarceration As a Basis for Doing So by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On March 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Montana approved a district court order terminating the parental rights of a father serving a ten year …
Article • May 1, 2017
Behind bars, beyond means: the crushing expense of loving someone in prison by Lisa Riordan Seville by Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz, The Guardian When Kristal Bush’s mother nearly went broke from the expense of visiting her son in prison, Kristal saw an opportunity to connect Philadelphia families to loved …
EPI - Mass Incarceration and Children's Outcomes, 2016 Mass incarceration and children’s outcomes Criminal justice policy is education policy Report • By Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein • December 15, 2016 Summary: Parental incarceration leads to an array of cognitive and noncognitive outcomes known to affect children’s performance in school. …
Article • March 14, 2017
Decision to Terminate Parental Rights of Incarcerated Father Vacated After His Conviction Overturned on Appeal by On July 7, 2016, the Rhode Island Supreme Court reversed a Family Court order terminating the parental rights of a man locked up for first degree murder after that conviction was reversed while the …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Texas Court of Appeals Upholds Termination of Prisoners’ Parental Rights by In January 2016, in separate cases, the Texas Court of Appeals upheld the termination of two prisoners’ parental rights after they used drugs and were incarcerated multiple times while child-removal actions were pending. Jade, a fictitious name given to …
Arkansas Prisoner’s Parental Rights Terminated by The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the termination of a prisoner’s parental rights. George Blumley was in prison on October 7, 2012, when the biological mother of his nine year old son, G.B., was arrested on several charges relative to a domestic violence incident.  The …
Face-to-Face Family Visits Return to Some Jails by By Mindy Fetterman, Stateline The jailhouse scene from 2014 remains vivid in Rebecca Shlafer’s mind. A 3-year-old girl came to the Washington County Jail in Stillwater, Minnesota, to see her dad. “She ran down the hall, jumped up in a chair and …
Legacy of Mass Incarceration: Parental Incarceration Impacts One in Fourteen Children by Christopher Zoukis A recent study by the research firm Child Trends revealed a stunning consequence of our nation’s policy and practice of mass incarceration: one out of every fourteen children in the U.S. has a parent who is …
This cruel new policy makes it near impossible for kids to see their incarcerated parents by By Dana Bazelon, Vox Unless you are an attorney, it requires a great deal of effort and some organization to visit someone in prison. You have to want it. There are forms to be signed …
Dear Librarian: Filling the Information Gap for Prisoners with No Internet Access by Christopher Zoukis For most Americans, life without Google or Wikipedia would be quite different, and living without Internet access probably unimaginable. One might ask, “How would I obtain the information I need to live my life?” Yet …
Child Support Relief Coming for Incarcerated Parents by In the last days of the Obama administration, regulators quietly ease the child support burden on parents in prison. by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project Squeezing in an executive action just a month before president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, on December 20, 2016 …
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