Episode 4: Jails

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In-care-ceration

Leah Montange and Meredith Ruff

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This show unpacks various ways that the mental healthcare and criminal justice systems are entangled, and through that entanglement grow. The show features the voices and perspectives of people who are currently or formerly locked up, as well as advocates in the healthcare and criminal justice systems. We hope it provides helpful information and analysis for people who are concerned with abolition in Washington and everywhere. This project was supported by the Institute of Human Geography.

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Episode 4: Jails

In-care-ceration

51 minutes 12 seconds

8 months ago

Episode 4: Jails

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Episode 4: Jails

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In this episode we talk about mental health in jails – what mental health care looks like in jails, how people with disabilities navigate and experience jail, and how activists and organizers have addressed the mental health crisis in urban jails in Washington. We speak with Jordan Landry, Tony Tyson, Leslie McCallum, KL Shannon and Patreece Spence. Content warning: this episode includes first-hand accounts of police violence, unhealthy jail conditions, and suicidal ideation.

Relevant news articles

Guy Oron, Advocates call for shutdown of King County jail after mounting death toll in facility

Lauren Reichenbach - Investigation into Tirhas Tesfatsion’s death says jail officers failed to perform their duties, violated public trust

Robert Mittendorf, Proposed agreement spells out Whatcom County jail construction and operations

Resources

Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept, The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration

Shut Down King County Jail - https://www.shutdownkcj.com/

No New Lynnwood Jail - https://www.nonewjail.com/

Disability Among Prison and Jail Inmates - https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/dpji1112.pdf

Washington State Jail Standards Task Force - https://www.atg.wa.gov/task-forces#JailStandards

Unchain Whatcom - https://unchainwhatcom.com/no-new-jail/