Friday, July 11: Claudia Rowe, author of: Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
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Friday, July 11, 2025
Each year, hundreds of thousands of children grow up in America’s $30 billion foster care system, only to leave and enter its prisons, where a quarter of all inmates are former foster youth.
Seattle author Claudia Rowe has ideas on how to fix this problem, and she wrote a book about it.
In Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care, Claudia Rowe paints a visceral survival narrative showing exactly where, when, and how the system channels children into locked cells.
