Why 2.7 Million Kids Can't Visit Their Parents in Prison

The front gate of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss.

Extended family visits for inmates are disappearing from state correctional facilities. Journalist Sylvia A. Harvey sheds light on the 2.7 million kids who are losing the right to visit their parents in her cover story for The Nation, "What About Us?" Harvey writes about the reasons that states have dismantled visitation programs, and the racist mentalities behind some of those reasons.