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NY: A Fair Chance for Families Separated by Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A Fair Chance for Families Separated by Prison by Tamar Kraft-Stolar | June 30, 2010 Co-authored by Sam Streed On June 15, incarcerated parents and their children received long sought-after and critical support in their efforts to maintain ties to each other and protect parental rights. On that day, after years of advocacy by the Correctional Association of New York's Women in Prison Project, the Coalition for Women Prisoners, and allies statewide, Governor David Paterson signed into law the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) Expanded Discretion Bill. This bill amends New York's ASFA law, which almost always requires foster care agencies to file termination of parental rights papers if a child has been in care for 15 of the last 22 months...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).