Workbook
The Distance
A Family Workbook for Maintaining Connection Across Incarceration
The system took a person from your house. It did not give your family a plan.
For the family maintaining connection across incarceration — children, partners, parents, siblings — who need a structure for what staying together looks like when presence is limited.
The Name It First Experience
Incarceration separates people. It does not have to separate families. This workbook walks you through what your family needs from each other across the distance. You produce Your Distance Charter: a signed document naming connection practices, visit commitments, and a plan for what comes after. The output is not waiting. It is maintenance.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- How did the distance get here — the specific sequence of events, decisions, or silences that put space between you and the person who is incarcerated?
- What does maintaining this connection actually cost you — in time, in emotional labor, in what it asks of you to keep showing up across the distance?
- What would The Connection Record say — honestly — about this relationship, what it is across the distance, and what you are both doing to keep it real?
Research basis
Murray & Farrington (children of incarcerated parents) / Wakefield & Wildeman (mass incarceration family impact) / Boss (ambiguous loss, non-death separation)
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