Claudia Rowe
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 4 Feb
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He says, you know, I acted like an animal because the system raised me to be an animal.
It is art who really articulates the cyclical nature that the book, Words of the State, is trying to get at.
This system...
pumping out kids so ill-equipped for productive adulthood that homelessness or incarceration are kind of the most likely outcomes.
They're astronomical and poverty across the board.
People will hear this podcast and be like, you're not being fair and broad brush and too dark of a picture.
Okay.
There might be better outcomes for some people when they are taken into the system much younger.
Yes, babies.
and with stable placements.
And there's all kinds of stuff in the book about attachment theory and connection and what that does to hormones and cortisol and how those things affect behavior.
We'll just leave it there.
But all the people who go...
not fair picture of foster care, I say, but what about these numbers?
You are not confronting the reality of these numbers.
Maybe for younger little babies who are adopted out of foster care and they have one family, maybe it's better.
But I know of cases where that is the case and weird behavioral stuff comes out when they're teenagers and one wonders.
Anyway.
Art becomes a character in the book because he's a fantastic writer.
Why he was important and, frankly, useful to me is that because prison has kind of a paralyzing effect in some ways on development, and I've seen this with other guys in prison, that because part of your life kind of stops, you're still able to...
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