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X-WR-CALDESC:Join us for the last CASA/GAL book club for 2025 at the Green 
 Dragon Inn.\nWe'll be discussing Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of Am
 erican Foster Care by Claudia Rowe.\n\n\nIn Wards of the State\, Claudia R
 owe offers readers a deep understanding of the foster care-to-prison pipel
 ine. Through interviews with psychologists\, advocates\, judges\, and the 
 former foster children themselves\, Rowe paints a heartbreaking picture of
  the lives shaped by this broken system.\n\nBy the time Maryanne was 16 ye
 ars old\, she had been arrested for murder. In and out of foster and adopt
 ive homes since age ten\, she’d run away\, been trafficked and assaulted\,
  and finally pointed a gun at the latest man to take her into his car. She
  pulled the trigger and fled. But with no family to turn to and few reliab
 le friends\, it didn’t take long for the police to catch up with her.\n\nI
 n court\, the defense blamed neither traffickers\, nor Maryanne\, but Wash
 ington state itself—or rather\, its foster care system\, which parents tho
 usands of children every year. The courts didn’t listen to that argument\,
  but award-winning journalist Claudia Rowe did.\n\nWashington state isn’t 
 alone. Each year\, hundreds of thousands of children grow up in America’s 
 $30 billion foster care system\, only to leave and enter its prisons\, whe
 re a quarter of all inmates are former foster youth.\n\nWeaving Maryanne’s
  story with those of five other foster kids across the country—including a
 n 18-year-old sleeping on the New York City subways\; a gangbanger turned 
 graduate student\; and a foster child who is now a policy advisor to the W
 hite House—Rowe paints a visceral survival narrative showing exactly where
 \, when\, and how the system channels children into locked cells.
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the last CASA/GAL book club for 2025 at the Green D
 ragon Inn.\nWe'll be discussing Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of Ame
 rican Foster Care by Claudia Rowe.\n\n\nIn Wards of the State\, Claudia Ro
 we offers readers a deep understanding of the foster care-to-prison pipeli
 ne. Through interviews with psychologists\, advocates\, judges\, and the f
 ormer foster children themselves\, Rowe paints a heartbreaking picture of 
 the lives shaped by this broken system.\n\nBy the time Maryanne was 16 yea
 rs old\, she had been arrested for murder. In and out of foster and adopti
 ve homes since age ten\, she’d run away\, been trafficked and assaulted\, 
 and finally pointed a gun at the latest man to take her into his car. She 
 pulled the trigger and fled. But with no family to turn to and few reliabl
 e friends\, it didn’t take long for the police to catch up with her.\n\nIn
  court\, the defense blamed neither traffickers\, nor Maryanne\, but Washi
 ngton state itself—or rather\, its foster care system\, which parents thou
 sands of children every year. The courts didn’t listen to that argument\, 
 but award-winning journalist Claudia Rowe did.\n\nWashington state isn’t a
 lone. Each year\, hundreds of thousands of children grow up in America’s $
 30 billion foster care system\, only to leave and enter its prisons\, wher
 e a quarter of all inmates are former foster youth.\n\nWeaving Maryanne’s 
 story with those of five other foster kids across the country—including an
  18-year-old sleeping on the New York City subways\; a gangbanger turned g
 raduate student\; and a foster child who is now a policy advisor to the Wh
 ite House—Rowe paints a visceral survival narrative showing exactly where\
 , when\, and how the system channels children into locked cells.
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LOCATION:Green Dragon Inn\, 115 East Market Street\, Akron\, OH 44308 US
SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB: Wards of the State
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