Introduction
Incarceration refers to the process of imprisoning and constricting an individual. In other words, it means jailing or confining somebody to restrict their movement and communication with the outside world. People may be locked up or detained behind bars for various reasons more so those that are contrary to the American constitution. Incarceration would therefore involve the denial of one 's rights and freedom without his or her consent.
"Throughout the last 40 years, the American imprisonment rate has increased from a fairly stable rate of about 100 prisoners per 100,000 members of the population in the early 1970s to about 500 per 100,000 now".
A family unit contains the father, mother and the children. The children may have
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More than 50% of the children who really witness the traumatic event are below seven years of age and are in the only care of their mother. Thirty children were interviewed and these children did witness their mother’s arrest with them reporting that they suffered nightmares and flashbacks because of the arrest incident. The children who are schooling when their mothers get arrested could return an unwelcoming empty house and actually be unaware that their mothers have been …show more content…
Substance abuse does have a role in incarceration, which could be a causal factor or even the primary offense. In the event of separation, children remain vulnerable, as they do not have a guardian to mentor them in keeping free from the ills of the society other than their teachers in school, grandparents and their peers. The children would in several occasions participate in drug consumption as they feel there is nobody to monitor their engagement in the drug industry while at the same time they want to forget the stigma associated with them having their parents (either) in