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People who are incarcerated have their parental rights terminated at a disproportionately high rate in Connecticut. The rate is much higher among Black and Latino parents, which leads to more children of color placed in adoption.
Those are the findings of a report released Friday by the nonprofit Connecticut Voices for Children and law students at Yale’s criminal justice clinic.
Yale Professor Miriam Gohara led the study. She said the main problem is the state may consider a parent in neglect of their child because of a prison sentence longer than 15 months. That leads to termination of parental rights, or TPR.
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People who are incarcerated have their parental rights terminated at a disproportionately high rate in Connecticut. The rate is much higher among Black and Latino parents, which leads to more children of color placed in adoption.
Those are the findings of a report released Friday by the nonprofit Connecticut Voices for Children and law students at Yale’s criminal justice clinic.
Yale Professor Miriam Gohara led the study. She said the main problem is the state may consider a parent in neglect of their child because of a prison sentence longer than 15 months. That leads to termination of parental rights, or TPR.