This host telephone interview explores the impact of the nation's prison expansion on the children of the incarcerated. At any one time, says author Nell Bernstein, 2.4 million kids have a parent in prison, and one in ten American children have a parent who's locked up, on probation, or on parole. Those children are often overlooked by a system that's quick to lock up drug-addicted parents rather than treat them, and by courts and prisons once their parents are behind bars, Bernstein tells host Chris Goldstein.

Many stations hesitate to run interviews done by hosts other than their own, but for those who will do so, this is a worthy piece. [Full disclosure: This reviewer, like Nell Bernstein, is a former Soros
Justice Media Fellow.]