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Prison rates for parents of black teens

More than half of black U.S. children with a low-education parent will experience having a parent behind bars by age 14, researchers found.Julie Poehlmann of the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues estimated that at any one time, 1.7 million, or 2.3 percent, of all U.S. children have a parent in prison.