SBS: How Australia is failing prisoners' kids

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Research and researcher cited in an online SBS article to accompany an episode of Insight.

Period29 Oct 2018

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  • TitleHow Australia is failing prisoners' kids
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletSBS
    Media typeWeb
    CountryAustralia
    Date29/10/18
    DescriptionWhen a parent is sent to prison, what’s put in place to support the child? Not a lot according to this expert. There are more than 43,000 children in Australia who have a parent in prison. And with Australia’s prison population rapidly rising, that number is steadily increasing. But according to Dr Catherine Flynn from Monash University, Australia is failing these children.
    Producer/AuthorGemma Wilson
    URLhttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/how-australia-is-failing-prisoner-s-kids
    PersonsCatherine Flynn
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Keywords

  • parental imprisonment
  • children of prisoners