State Inmates to Learn More About Child Support Rights

State prison inmates can now learn more about their child support rights through a new initiative that is working to teach them.

Starting this month a video, entitled "Working with the Child Support System: What You Need to Do," will be shown on inmate television at every state male institution. It aims to teach inmates how to deal with pending or active child support orders while they are incarcerated.  Across the nation about half of the male inmate population currently owes child support payments.

According to Elizabeth Siggins, Chief Deputy Secretary of Adult Programs, "Today our child support obligation does not end because a parent is incarcerated. Many inmates have a limited ability to modify, suspend or even make efforts to pay toward their child support orders.  She collaborated with the Department of Child Support Services to make this video possible.

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