All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision-incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children-and one in eight African American children-goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society.



Following in the tradition of the bestseller Random Family, journalist Nell Bernstein shows, through the deeply moving stories...