Forty years after my family fought for the right for me to hug my mother in prison, children are still being denied the same human connection.

Children Deserve the Right to Hug Their Incarcerated Parents

When I was a year old, my parents were arrested. My mother came home 22 years later. My father came home after 40 years. I don’t remember the day they were taken from me, but I remember the visiting rooms, the metal detectors, the steel gates, the pat-downs I submitted to as a small child for the reward on the other side: the chance to sit in my mother’s lap, to hold my father’s hand, to be enveloped in a hug.

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