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Two of Oregon’s authorities on the unique challenges facing children of incarcerated parents will visit Warner Creek Correctional Facility Wednesday, Nov. 30, to present a program for prison staff and the community about intergenerational criminality.
According to the Department of Corrections (DOC), 20,000 children in Oregon have a parent in prison. Children who have had a parent incarcerated are five times more likely than their peers to someday be incarcerated themselves. Two-thirds of Oregon’s 13,000 inmates have children under the age of 18.
Because of these and other compelling statistics, more than five years ago the DOC began the Children of Incarcerated Parents Project to help prevent children of criminals from becoming criminals themselves.
Claudia Black, associate director of the Criminal Justice Policy Research Institute at Portland State University, and Sharon Darcy, executive director of Pathfinders of Oregon, have been involved from the beginning in the DOC’s initiative to break the vicious cycle of criminality.
In a two-hour presentation, Black and Darcy will discuss the current thinking about intergenerational criminality, DOC’s in-prison programs for parents and children, as well as collateral programs in several Oregon communities.
The public is invited to hear the talk Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the administration building at Warner Creek Correctional Facility near Lakeview from 10 a.m. to noon.
For information please contact Lauren Bowersox, assistant to the superintendent, at 541-947-8219.
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