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NOW LAW: Lopez on Dignity for Incarcerated Primary Caretaker Parents Act

To provide incarcerated individuals who are parents and the primary caregivers of their children with certain protections to help preserve familial bonds that are often crucial to rehabilitation, legislation sponsored by Assemblywomen Yvonne Lopez, Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Verlina Reynolds-Jackson was signed into law Thursday by Governor Phil Murphy.