Mass incarceration & generational trauma

I was saddened to learn that 1 in 9 African American children have a parent who is incarcerated. Parental incarceration is one of the factors scored on the Adverse Childhood Experiences scale (ACE) to measure childhood trauma. The trauma of being incarcerated is becoming generational, as the video points out. Our society continues to create new trauma for people of color - both through mass incarceration and also recently the family separation policies for immigration. My heart breaks at the suffering.

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