Jailcare Chapter 5
When a guardian goes to prison, they risk having parental rights terminated if their children live in foster care for more than _____?
What is 15 months?
This is the reason it is so difficult for Samson to see his son regularly.
What are long drive times, busy lives, and financial burdens?
The interviewer was willing to bet money on this, when having a conversation with Sylvia Harvey about mass incarceration.
What are the odds that Sylvia or one of her brother’s had been “locked up”?
What percentage of families struggle with food/ housing and medical insecurity after a member of the family has been incarcerated?
What is 65%?
In Jailcare, this term describes how the state disproportionately regulates poor women’s reproduction through incarceration and social policies.
What is Reproductive Governance?
This was how Sanson and his son communicated for the most part.
What are letter writing, and later on a tablet?
When Sylvia talks about the history of redlining in black communities she follows with “I could see how families like mine were relegated to a resource-depleted community shaped by _________ _________”
What is "structural racism"?
How many children in the United States have a parent that is currently incarcerated?
What is 2.7 million?
This is one extreme example of prisons controlling the reproductive capacity of incarcerated women as revealed in chapter 5 of Jailcare.
What is the coerced sterilization of nearly 150 women in California prisons between 2006 and 2010.
Sanson wants to break this ______ ______, ensuring his son does not fall victim to the same fate as him.
What is a “Generational Curse”?
Sylvia attempts to better understand the experiences of families with members who are incarcerated and to lessen the negative impacts of this concept, by sharing personal stories and experiences.
What are Stereotypes?
What percent of newly admitted women are pregnant?
What is approximately 3-4%?
This federal law puts incarcerated mothers at risk of permanently losing custody of their children if they remain in prison for over 15 months.
What is the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA)
According to the Andrade reading, this is one way that prisons and their communication policies financially burden incarcerated individuals and their families.
What are the high cost of phone calls and digital communication services while incarcerated?
Children with incarcerated parents can experience this form of instability, which can effect their emotional and financial well being.
What percentage of americans have a family member who has been incarcerated?
What is 50%?
This judicial decision regarding Maria’s pregnancy contrasted with Alisha’s case in Jailcare, demonstrating the inconsistency of incarceration policies for pregnant women.
What is a judge’s ruling that “jail is no place for a pregnant woman” while another judge ruled it to be better for Alisha’s pregnancy?
This acts as a significant reason as to why imprisoned people are cut off from their children.
What is bureaucratic difficulty (paperwork/approval), financial burden ( securing visitation rights/travel) and emotional taxation?
Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts marginalized communities due to policies like mandatory minimums and three-strike laws, both of which are examples of this legal approach that prioritizes punitive measures over rehabilitation.
What is tough-on-crime legislation?
What is the estimated annual amount spent on/by incarcerated individuals and their families on phone calls and commissary?
What is an estimated $2.9 billion?