Issues

PDF of this list in Spanish

• “Children at risk”
• “Children at risk” vs. “Children of Potential”
• Advocating for prisoners’ children/families
• Children’s responses to parental incarceration—relief, grief, anger, etc.
• Correspondence
• Death and dying in prison
• Death row prison families
• Drug offenders and their families
• Family re-unification
• Family Reunion Programs
• Health issues of prison families/children
• How prison family issues differ from those of other special-needs groups
• Immigration
• Innocence of prisoner—family issues
• ION scanner
• Legislation (NYS and federal)
• Medical care issues re: prisoners
• Mental health issues for prisoners and prison families/children
• Mentoring programs for prisoners’ children
• New York Inmate Families website
• NYS prison policy issues-past and present
• NYS prisons and how they differ
• Our personal stories as prison family members
• Packages
• Parenting/caregiving a prisoner’s child
• Parole
• PFNY annual retreat for women who have loved ones in NYS prison
• Policy recommendations
• Preparing child care workers to accompany children on prison visits
• Prison family organizing
• Prison family community-building events
• Prison family survival
• Prison industrial complex
• Prison issues for faith-based communities
• Prison parent/child issues
• Prison placement and security levels
• Prison telephone issues—the NYS DOCS/MCI contract
• Prisoner/parolee voter disenfranchisement
• Prisoners’ children and families as experts
• Programs in NYS—where, what, for whom
• Race and incarceration
• Re-entry issues for children, families and communities
• Resources for prison families statewide
• School issues for prisoners’ children
• Separation and children’s self-identity
• Sex offenders and their families
• Special Housing Units—“the box”
• Support groups—how to find one, how to facilitate, how to start a new one
• Training for professionals—teachers, lawyers, etc.
• Transfers
• Transportation
• Visiting room experiences
• Women and prison issues