![]() While the data for Native children is not known nationally, Oklahoma data demonstrates that Native children are twice as likely as white children to have an incarcerated parent, while in both the Dakotas they are about five times more likely (The Next 100). On any given day, a Black child is seven times more likely to have an incarcerated parent than a white child, and Latinx children are twice as likely. While parental incarceration is staggering regardless of race with more than half of all people who are incarcerated being parents, the racial disparities are harrowing as two thirds of parents who are incarcerated identify as BIPOC. ![]() ![]() One in 4 Black children have had a parent who has been incarcerated compared to one in 25 white children (Sentencing Project). has experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives – more than 5.7 million children under the age of 18. ![]() And, yet, one out of every 12 children living in the U.S. ![]()
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