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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.
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Narrating Context and Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: Federal Sentencing Work in Yale Law School’s Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic
The title of this post is the title of this notable new article authored by Miriam Gohara now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:
The Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic (CMIC) at Yale Law School has been representing clients in federal sentencing and state postconviction cases since 2016. Drawing on a blueprint I set forth in a 2013 article, the clinic teaches a model of noncapital sentencing practice that builds on the best capital defense sentencing practices and seeks to transform judges’ and prosecutors’ assumptions about criminal sentencing.