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Parents Losing Children Because They Can’t Repay Foster Care Costs Incurred During Incarceration

by Jo Ellen Nott

When parents are incarcerated, their children are often placed in foster care. A little-noticed federal law from the “tough on crime” Reagan era requires states to bill those parents for a portion of their kids’ foster care. But since federal subsidizing of foster care applies only ...

 

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