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292,000 CA Children Have a Parent in Prison

January 1, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

Sacramento — The California Research Bureau estimates 292,000 California children had a parent in prison or jail. The 2000 survey also showed another 564,000 minors had a parent on parole or probation; with those numbers combined, nine percent of California’s children had a parent in the criminal justice system.

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