It’s Fathers Day so it’s only right that we bring attention to the many people suffering due to having loved ones behind bars. We received an email about Ebony Underwood’s mission to bring light to her father, William Underwood’s case. Publicity around clemency, pardons and sentence commutation have been at a high with the recent freeing of Alice Marie Johnson.
Ebony wrote to BOSSIP explaining how of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in the US, 50% of them are parents. There are over 10 million children in the US who have at some point in their life been impacted by parental incarceration. At any given time, 2.7 million children under the age of 18 have a parent incarcerated.