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| IL Business Tackles Relations With Jailed Parents |
| By austintalks.org |
| Published: 10/26/2010 |
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Kiana Booker, 17, won’t ever forget her mother’s death in 1997. “Me and my sisters woke up and saw our mom murdered, killed by our dad,” said Kiana. Three of the Booker sisters - Tiara, Kiana and Shayla - attended the meeting earlier this month. (Photo/Vee L. Harrison) Kiana and her five sisters have been without both parents since she was 3. All are being raised by their grandmother. The Booker sisters are just six of possibly thousands of Illinois children with an incarcerated parent. Only three states require there to be a count of children with a parent in prison – Illinois is not one of them – so there aren’t concrete numbers. But groups that work with families in the Austin, Humboldt Park, Garfield, Englewood and North Lawndale neighborhoods say West Side children are disproportionately affected. Read More. |
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