Correctional Forum

A forgotten population

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"... the majority of police departments have no written protocol delineating officers' responsibility to the children of arrested parents, and those protocols that do exist vary widely in their wording and their implementation." Nell Bernstein, All Alone in the World, p.9

Quote of the Day

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." 

~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883