Cranking up the foster care to prison pipeline in Missouri
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 30, 2025
In an interview with the Missouri Independent, the new head of the Missouri Children’s Division, one of the two agencies (notwithstanding its denials – see below) that take away children and hold them in foster care, said “she wants to bring the Children’s Division back to basics, which she defines as ensuring safety for children.”
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