"One in thirty-three American children, and one in eight African American children, go to sleep each night denied access to a parent because that parent is behind bars. One out of every ten children has a parent under criminal justice supervision - in prison, on probation, or on parole. Despite these staggering numbers, however, the children of the incarcerated remain largely invisible." "In All Alone in the World, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein provides an intimate and at times heartbreaking look into the lives of these children and their families. Having spent the last five years researching and writing about the children of prisoners, Bernstein explores many different sides of the issue, ranging from children's experience at the time of their parents' arrest, to unnecessarily harsh laws and policies that force even low-level offenders to forfeit parental rights, to proposals for alternative forms of punishment that take into account the status of prisoners who are also mothers and fathers."--BOOK JACKET.