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When people go to prison, they lose certain rights and privileges, but what happens to their children? The number of children whose parents are incarcerated has increased dramatically over the last decade. In Washington, more than 21,000 children have a parent in state prison. These children often have poor social and academic skills and are at a higher risk than their peers for delinquency, depression, drug abuse, teen pregnancy and eventual incarceration. On KUOW ? we get a look inside the life of a Washington inmate, and find out what a child experiences? When a Parent Calls Collect.
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When people go to prison, they lose certain rights and privileges, but what happens to their children? The number of children whose parents are incarcerated has increased dramatically over the last decade. In Washington, more than 21,000 children have a parent in state prison. These children often have poor social and academic skills and are at a higher risk than their peers for delinquency, depression, drug abuse, teen pregnancy and eventual incarceration. On KUOW ? we get a look inside the life of a Washington inmate, and find out what a child experiences? When a Parent Calls Collect.
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Review of When a Parent Calls Collect
Two solid short pieces that would fit during ATC (or Morning Edition). The series of two reports describes a program in a Washington state prison that encourages fathers to be closer and more involved with their children. The pieces focus in on James, serving a 30 year term for drug related charges. He has six kids, and through this program he is learning to be better connected to them, and learning about himself as well. Lots of good information in the pieces. Smart to focus on one prisoner. His story helps us understand the goals and successes of the program. After listening, I wish I had been more moved by these pieces. I think the final scene in the second piece, of James having a phone conversation with his daughter Cassie, needs to have come sooner. We get the scene that "shows" us the relationship after we have already heard too much "about" the relationship from the producer, from Cassie and from James. This is a good set of pieces that would make for good programming on local stations across the country.