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Episode 6: Care Reform, Care Otherwise

Episode transcript here.

In this episode we explore ways that people are working to build a more caring and care-full world, and to address the harms of our carceral systems whether they are prisons, jails, or hospitals. Some of the people we talk to are interested in engaging with Washington State to change systems, and others are more interested in finding ways to do care otherwise, outside of state systems. This episode features the words of Scout Smedley, SYP, Cindi Fisher, Joshua Wallace, Lauara Van Tosh, Chris Carney, Shaun Glaze, and LeTania Severe, as well as Patreece Spence. We’d like to dedicate this episode, and the whole series to those who lost their lives or their loved ones’ lives – physically or socially - to carceral systems; and to all who have devoted their lives to creating a more just, caring future, one where we aren’t relying on cages or confinement to solve social problems. Thank you!

Resources:

Amanda Ong, ”CALM Launches Medic Hotline to Provide Community Health Navigation”

International Peer Respite/Soteria Summit 2021

Open Dialogue approach to mental healthcare -

Seattle City Council funding for Community Safety Capacity Building/Alternatives to Policing

Mental Health First (Oakland)

CAHOOTS (Eugene)

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC, Bay Area)

BATJC Podmapping tool

Fireweed Collective

Instituted for Development of Human Arts (NYC)

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Episode 5: Prisons

Episode transcript here.

In this episode we talk about mental and physical healthcare in Washington’s prisons. We speak with Tony Tyson, Queen J, and Darnell Jones, all incarcerated voices in our state, who talk to us about accessing care in prison, and also what they or the people around them have done to get or create care. Content warning: this episode includes first-hand accounts of medical neglect and suicidality in prison.

Relevant News Articles:

Jeanie Lindsay, “Suicides spike at Washington prisons, prisoners say they need more access to mental health care”

Jeanie Lindsay, “As Washington state’s prison population shrank, the cost of incarceration went up”

Laurel Demkovich, “‘Blindsided’ by a Washington prison closure”

Warm Closures

Tomas Keen, “A “Warm” Closure”

Raymond Williams, “In Washington State, Prison Closure Divides Abolitionist Community”

Jeff McKee

Jeffrey McKee, “Inside the Mental Health Unit at Washington State Penitentiary”

Jeff McKee’s writing for us on suicide in prison

Cultural Awareness Groups in Washington

Cultural Awareness Groups Zine

Liberation Media Northwest

Black Prisoners’ Caucus - and on Instagram

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