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This chapter discusses the childcare and custody rights of incarcerated parents. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 809,800 state and federal prisoners were parents to children under the age of eighteen in 2007. There are approximately 1,706,600 children under the age of eighteen who have a parent in prison.
As a parent in prison, you may fear that your child will not be cared for, that you will lose your child, or that your relationship with your child will suffer while you are incarcerated. This Chapter focuses on New York state law and describes how the law provides parents in prison with various tools to prevent these things from happening.
Title of Book
A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (11th ed.)
Publication Date
2017
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
Columbia Human Rights Law Review
City
New York
Keywords
adoption, child custody, foster care, kinship care, parental rights, paternity, termination of parental rights
Disciplines
Family Law | Law Enforcement and Corrections
Recommended Citation
Angélica Cházaro,
Rights of Incarcerated Parents, in
A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (11th ed.)
1002
(2017).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-chapters/1