As described in the book Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality, how does mass incarceration in the...

In the book
Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American
Inequality, authors Sara Wakefield of Rutgers University and Christopher Wildeman of
Yale University explore the effects of high rates of US incarceration, turning their attention
to the children of incarcerated parents.

Using data from surveys of children
and caregivers and qualitative interview data, Wakefield and Wildeman show how mass
incarceration has disproportionately affected black men and their children. The researchers
conclude that incarceration is exceedingly racially...

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