Incarceration is a big word for a HUGE topic. It can bring up difficult questions and feelings—especially when it affects you directly. This book explores incarceration, crimes, and prison, as well as the power of choices. The author's story highlights the impact of choices and how someone can grow, learn, and change the path they've been on.

Incarceration is a BIG topic. Start the conversation early around the power of choices, consequences, justice, and growth. Incarceration is a big word for a HUGE topic. It can bring up difficult questions and feelings—especially when it affects you directly. This book explores incarceration, crimes, and prison, as well as the power of choices. The author's story highlights the impact of choices and how someone can grow, learn, and change the path they've been on.

Children of the Prison Boom describes the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration for a generation of vulnerable children. Wakefield and Wildeman find that parental imprisonment leads to increased mental health and behavioral problems, infant mortality, and child homelessness which translate into large-scale increases in racial inequality.

When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.

The Prison Alphabet is a child-friendly approach to helping young children understand what is going on behind bars with their parent(s) or family member(s).

Kids in Jail, narrative nonfiction, sheds light on a deeply fractured juvenile justice system. In the grim setting of a juvenile jail, the book reveals the angst of tragically lost childhoods, appalling indignities, and brutal retribution. The harsh realities of incarceration are unveiled to awaken system reform and allow youth to rise from the rubble of custody. Kids in Jail eloquently conveys the capacity of children to change. This book is a treatise for justice.