2010 Rhode Island Kids Count Factbook

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Youth in Detention in Rhode Island ◆ In 2008, 29% of admissions to detention at the Training School that did not lead to adjudications to the Training School or Temporary Community Placements (TCP) resulted in stays of two days or less, 43% resulted in stays of three days to two weeks, and 28% resulted in stays of more than two weeks. 34 ◆ Five of the 17 unadjudicated youth in detention on January 1, 2010 had been there for more than two months; many youth who stay in detention for long periods of time are waiting for waivers to Table 27. Youth at the Rhode Island Training School, 2009 TOTAL POPULATION # OF # OF ADJUDICATED TOTAL # CITY/TOWN AGES 13-21 DETAINED YOUTH YOUTH OF YOUTH Barrington 2,009 3 6 9 Bristol 3,525 1 4 5 Burrillville 2,067 6 3 9 Central Falls 2,625 5 13 18 Charlestown 755 2 1 3 Coventry 3,688 7 8 15 Cranston 8,499 7 29 36 Cumberland 3,325 11 10 21 East Greenwich 1,397 0 0 0 East Providence 5,092 16 13 29 Exeter 730 1 0 1 Foster 512 0 1 1 Glocester 1,251 3 2 5 Hopkinton 912 0 3 3 Jamestown 536 0 0 0 Johnston 2,624 1 7 8 Lincoln 2,260 8 7 15 Little Compton 351 1 0 1 Middletown 1,647 3 7 10 Narragansett 2,798 1 2 3 New Shoreham 70 0 1 1 Newport 3,755 3 23 26 North Kingstown 2,773 4 10 14 North Providence 3,045 5 13 18 North Smithfield 1,073 2 2 4 Pawtucket 8,298 28 68 96 Portsmouth 1,723 1 2 3 Providence 33,871 97 246 343 Richmond 783 0 0 0 Scituate 1,155 0 2 1 Smithfield 3,890 2 3 5 South Kingstown 6,532 3 7 10 Tiverton 1,523 3 4 7 Warren 1,208 0 3 3 Warwick 8,863 19 18 37 West Greenwich 599 0 0 0 West Warwick 3,177 10 18 28 Westerly 2,414 10 6 16 Woonsocket 5,034 11 36 47 Out of State/Unknown NA 13 30 43 Core Cities 56,760 154 404 558 Remainder of State 79,629 149 144 293 Rhode Island 136,389 316 578 894 Juveniles at the Training School Source of Data for Table/Methodology Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families, Rhode Island Children’s Information System (RICHIST), 2009; and the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000. Data are for adjudicated and detained youth who were in the care or custody of the Rhode Island Training School during calendar year 2009 (including youth from out of state, those with unknown addresses and those in temporary community placements). Youth with out-of-state and unknown addresses are not included in the Rhode Island, core cities or remainder of state totals. The total unduplicated column includes youth who were detained and/or adjudicated to the training school as well as youth who received Temporary Community Placement (TCP) adjudications. Youth who received TCP adjudications are included in the adjudicated column. Youth who are counted in the detained columns did not receive adjudications to the Training School or TCP. Youth included in the adjudicated columns may or may not have been in detention at the Training School prior to adjudication. There is no statutory lower age limit for sentencing, however adjudicated children under the age of 13 typically do not serve sentences at the Training School. An “out-of-state” designation is given to youth whose parent(s) have an address on file that is outside of Rhode Island or to a youth who lives in another state, but commits a crime in Rhode Island and is sentenced to serve time at the Training School. References 1 Grisso, T. (2004). Double jeopardy: Adolescent offenders with mental disorders. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2,10 Smith, C. A. (2008). Juvenile delinquency: An introduction. The Prevention Researcher: Preventing Juvenile Delinquency, 15(1), 3-6. 3 Wasserman, G. A., Keenan, K., Tremblay, R. E., Coie, J. D., Herrenkohl, T. I., Loeber, R. & Petechuk, D. (2003). Risk and protective factors of child delinquency. Child Delinquency Bulletin Series. (NCJ Publication No. 193409). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (continued on page 168) the adult system. 35 2010 Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Factbook 97
Children of Incarcerated Parents DEFINITION Children of incarcerated parents is the number of children reported by parents serving sentences at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections per 1,000 children under age 18. The data are reported by the place of the parent’s last residence before entering prison. SIGNIFICANCE Approximately 1.7 million children in the U.S. have a parent incarcerated in state or federal prison, and a quarter of minor children with a parent in prison are under age five. 1 Having an incarcerated parent can negatively impact the quality of a child’s attachment to their parent and can lead to anxiety, withdrawal, hyper-vigilance, and other reactive behaviors. 2 As a result of parental incarceration, children may experience disruptions in their homes, temporary caregivers or placements in foster care, financial hardship and an increased risk of child abuse and neglect. 3 Compared to other children, children of incarcerated parents also are at greater risk for poor academic achievement, aggressive behavior, and housing instability. 4,5,6 Nationally, most children of incarcerated parents live with their other parent (84%), a grandparent (15%) or other relatives (6%). 7 Grandparents and other relative caregivers often experience significant economic hardship. They may not receive necessary supports or services because they are unaware that they are eligible, they are worried about stigma attached to receiving assistance, they have previously been denied benefits or because they wish to maintain their families' privacy. 8 Children of incarcerated parents are more likely to be involved with the child welfare system. 9 These cases are some of the most complex cases child welfare agencies encounter. These children are generally exposed to more risk factors than other children, including parental substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence and extreme poverty. 10 In Rhode Island in 2009, more than two-thirds (67%) of incarcerated parents with a known in-state residence identified one of the core cities as their last place of residence. The rate of children of incarcerated parents in the core cities (18.8 per 1,000 children) is nearly four times the rate in the remainder of the state (5.1 per 1,000 children). 11,12 Of the 1,774 Rhode Island parents incarcerated on December 31, 2009, including those awaiting trial, 47% were White, 29% were Black, 22% were Hispanic, and 1% were Native American, Asian or another race. 13 Parents at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions, December 31, 2009 INMATES # REPORTING % REPORTING # OF CHILDREN SURVEYED* CHILDREN CHILDREN REPORTED Awaiting Trial 513 368 72% 846 Serving a Sentence 2,138 1,406 66% 3,043 Total Inmates 2,651 1,774 67% 3,889 Source: Rhode Island Department of Corrections, December 31, 2009. *Does not include inmates who were missing responses to the question on number of children, inmates on home confinement or those from another state's jurisdiction. ◆ Of the 2,651 inmates awaiting trial or serving a sentence who were surveyed as of December 31, 2009 and answered the question on number of children, 1,774 inmates reported having 3,889 children. The median length of sentence of inmates who reported having children was four years for males and one and a half years for females. 14 ◆ Of the 83 sentenced mothers on December 31, 2009, 37% were serving a sentence for a nonviolent offense, 30% for a violent offense, 20% for a drug offense, 11% for breaking and entering, and 1% for sex-related offenses. Of the 1,323 sentenced fathers, 42% were serving sentences for violent offenses, 19% for drug offenses, 15% for nonviolent offenses, 15% for sex-related offenses, and 9% for breaking and entering. 15 ◆ In Rhode Island in 2009, 63% of the incarcerated parents awaiting trial or serving a sentence had less than a high school degree and 8% had less than a ninth-grade education. Thirty percent of the parents awaiting trial or serving a sentence had a high school diploma or a GED and 7% had some college education. 16 Inadequate education, poor housing, unemployment and poor health put parents at risk of incarceration. 17 ◆ For most incarcerated parents, a supportive family, education, job training, stable housing, employment assistance, medical assistance and substance abuse treatment support the well-being of their children and their successful transition to the community after incarceration. 18 ◆ Maintaining positive and healthy familial bonds between children and their incarcerated parents is crucial to children’s emotional well-being because it can reduce the negative effects children experience as a result of the parent’s absence. Preservation of this bond also can have positive effects on the rehabilitation of incarcerated parents. 19 98 2010 Rhode Island KIDS COUNT Factbook / Safety
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Overview From: I’ll Be You and Yo
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Family and Community From: On Freed
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Table 1. Child Population, Rhode Is
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Racial and Ethnic Diversity Table 6
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities Rhode
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Children in Poverty Financial Asset
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