Decarceration Nation (with Josh And Joel)

Josh and Joel discuss mental health care in America's Jails and Prisons. The Bureau of Justice Statistics article details the high prevalence of mental health problems in prisons and jails. The results of the Michigan House C.A.R.E.S. task force were compiled into this report. My Daily Kos article, that Joel refers to, was one of my most popular. Tom Dart is an important figure, he was on 60 minutes, he put out a really influential guide on mental health care in prisons and jails, and he also has been oddly resistant to bail reform (given some of his statements on the appropriateness of jails and prisons). Mr. Dart also hired a psychologist as warden at Cook County Jail, which IMO makes a lot of sense. There are a lot of popular press articles that give good summaries of the deinstitutionalization of American Mental Health facilities decades ago. John Pfaff discusses the strange incentives that are often set up at the county level to push people to State facilities in his book "Locked In." Some fol