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County Court, Westchester County, People V. Gant, Albert V. Messina Jr.
County Court, Westchester County, People V. Gant, Albert V. Messina Jr.
Touro Law Review
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Appellate Division, Fourth Department, People V. Mcfarley, Erica R. Borgese
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, People V. Mcfarley, Erica R. Borgese
Touro Law Review
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Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer
Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer
Utah Law Review
Children-in-prison programs reflect a commendable sympathy for the lifelong disadvantage and deprivation that most prison inmates have suffered and a wish to transform their lives. But acting primarily on the basis of that sympathy and wish, rather than focusing realistically on what is truly best for children, is a moral and policy mistake. Available evidence suggests that the extreme form of connecting incarcerated birth parents with their offspring, prison nurseries, harms the great majority of those children, especially when the impact is compared to the life the children might have had if adopted immediately after birth. Advocacy for this practice …