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Digital Love Letters for fathers who are incarcerated

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Digital Love Letters for fathers who are incarcerated ABOUT ZENFONE - Digital Love Letters for fathers who are incarcerated, This past Mothers Day, we shared #LoveLetters, a partnership among nonprofits to give the children of incarcerated parents a chance to have their voices heard. Today, in celebration of Father�s Day, you can watch Love Letters for incarcerated fathers. This work is part of our continued commitment to raising awareness about racial injustice, and to bearing witness to the human costs of mass incarceration. The costs of mass incarceration have disproportionately affected the lives of Black men. From 1980 to 2007, about one in three of the 25.4 million adults arrested for drugs was African-American. And if that current trend continues, one in three Black boys born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime. All in all, we�re now at a point where there are more African-American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations of India, ...

Digital LoveLetters from children of the incarcerated

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Digital LoveLetters from children of the incarcerated ABOUT ZENFONE - Digital #LoveLetters from children of the incarcerated , Back in February, we announced a new effort from Google.org focused on racial justice, including support for organizations working to end mass incarceration. This is a critical issue in the United States, which represents 5 percent of the world�s population, but 25 percent of the world�s prison population. And Blacks are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites�in fact, the United States imprisons a larger percentage of its Black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. An often overlooked fact of mass incarceration is that many first-time, nonviolent offenders who receive prison sentences are parents. There are 2.7 million American children with a parent behind bars, and Black children are 7.5 times more likely to have a parent behind bars than their white counterparts. The experience of having a parent in prison is traumatizing ...