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All Alone in the World

Thursday, November 10, 2005

2.4 million American children have a parent in jail--that’s one out of every thirty-three kids. Journalist Nell Bernstein looks at the toll incarceration takes on the children who are left behind in All Alone in the World.

» Read an excerpt of All Alone in the World in the Reading Room

Music: Sountrack from the Motion Picture Heat
Track 8: Of Helplessness
Track 6: Ultramarine by Michael Brook
Track 1: Heat


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