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Tips for handling separation during the holiday season
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsDr, Harland Kessaris, a psychologist specializing in re-entry of incarcerated individuals back into family and society, provides some insight into handling the feeling of isolation and separation during the holiday season when you have a loved one in prision. -
Healthcare: Ill and dying in prison
Posted on October 18, 2009 | No CommentsThe New York Times has an interesting piece about how more prisons are starting hospice programs as the prison population ages with many of them using inmate volunteers to ease the pain of dying in prison. Without family to help deal with the illness, the last days or months of life can be difficult. Fellow inmates can help deal that remaining time. -
Listen now: Documentary filmmaker- Children of incarcerated parents speak
Posted on October 9, 2009 | No CommentsListen to the show to hear Turano talk about the film, what she learned while making it and the advice she has for children of incarcerated parents. -
Web radio: Documentary filmmaker- Children of incarcerated parents speak
Posted on September 30, 2009 | No CommentsWeb Radio Guest: Marika Turano, the documentary filmmaker of The Word Is Love. Capturing the voices of children affected by arrest and incarceration, The Word Is Love looks at the impact of incarceration, but from a child's point of view. -
Prison strengthens relationship, even after 25 years, for one Brooklyn, New York couple
Posted on August 27, 2009 | No CommentsHector Martinez was released this March and reunited with his family, including wife Dulce of 30 years. But coming back into the world after a 25-year absence, especially during a recession, is far from easy. -
In prisoners’ wake, a tide of troubled kids
Posted on July 6, 2009 | No CommentsRecent studies indicate that having an incarcerated parent doubles the chance that a child will be at least temporarily homeless and measurably increases the likelihood of physically aggressive behavior, social isolation, depression and problems in school. -
Listen now: Financial advice for families and the formerly incarcerated
Posted on June 2, 2009 | No CommentsWeb radio show with Mark S La Spisa a financial advisor and President and co-founder of Vermillion Financial Advisors Inc. He fielded questions from the listeners and offered helpful financial advice. -
Visiting Daddy in prison: A Palestinian ordeal
Posted on May 7, 2009 | No CommentsSpending time with her dad requires that 6-year-old Jinan undertake a bizarre and arduous odyssey. Usually she travels alone, but last Monday, the Palestinian girl with the rosebud smile and bouncing energy was accompanied by her younger sisters Dania, 4, and Noor, 2, on the journey to the Israeli prison that holds her father. -
Listen now: Terrence Stevens and In Arms Reach
Posted on April 21, 2009 | No CommentsIn Arms Reach - Program Director Sharieff Clayton spoke about his organization that serves children of incarcerated parents. And also what is was like to watch his kids grow into teenagers while he is was in prison. -
Jail time increases odds of hypertension, researchers find
Posted on April 14, 2009 | No CommentsFormer prison inmates are more likely than those who have never been incarcerated to have high blood pressure as young adults and to develop a dangerous thickening of the heart’s left ventricle.