2.4 million American children have a parent in jail--that’s one out of every thirty-three kids. Journalist Nell Bernstein looks at the toll incarceration takes on the children who are left behind in All Alone in the World.
» Read an excerpt of All Alone in the World in the Reading Room
Music: Sountrack from the Motion Picture Heat
Track 8: Of Helplessness
Track 6: Ultramarine by Michael Brook
Track 1: Heat
» Read an excerpt of All Alone in the World in the Reading Room
Music: Sountrack from the Motion Picture Heat
Track 8: Of Helplessness
Track 6: Ultramarine by Michael Brook
Track 1: Heat
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