NCJ Number
110698
Editor(s)
J W Mustin
Date Published
1987
Length
90 pages
Annotation
This anthology presents program materials and articles focusing on publicly and privately funded programs provided in communities throughout the United States and Canada to strengthen the family ties of incarcerated adults and juvenile runaways.
Abstract
These programs serve families in prisons, juvenile courts, probation offices, youth homes, work release centers, and many other settings. Some programs are run by correctional agencies. Others are run by private, nonprofit groups. Some are secular, while others are religious. The materials include activities for children, a program to employ ex-inmates and their families, a family therapy program designed to aid the re-entry of inmates into their families, a residential program, support groups for family members, programs to assist visits by inmates' family members, and multiservice programs. Descriptions of program components and philosophies, photographs, diagrams, and appended national directory of programs serving families of adult offenders.