Concentrated Incarceration Effects on Families

Children:

• Developmental and emotional strains
  
• Less parental supervision
• Greater risk of parental abuse
• Increased risk of encounters with justice system

Mothers:

• Difficulty sustaining intimate relationships with partner
• Increased risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases

Families:

• More likely to break up
• Economic strains

Girls

• Teenage pregnancies more likely

Boys

• Delinquency involvement more likely

Neighborhood:

• Less positive feelings about one another
• Isolation between neighbors