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New Tennessee Legislation Will Destroy Hundreds, Probably Thousands, of Families
Loaded on Feb. 19, 2020
by Sandy Rozek
published in Criminal Legal News
March, 2020, page 42
Filed under:
Family,
Fathers in Prison,
Mothers in Prison,
Parental rights,
Children of Prisoners.
Location:
Tennessee.
by Sandy Rozek, NARSOL
In some of our border states, children sit in detention camps, taken from their parents and held for a reason deemed good by some in our society.
Half the country away in the state of Tennessee, parents will be taken from their children against their will, ...
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