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KAT: County Jail, State Prison, and overcoming addiction

1h 54m | May 14, 2021

Is going to jail primarily for rehabilitation or punishment? This episode takes a true ‘inside’ perspective on mental health and prison. I speak with a young woman from Indiana who discusses drug conspiracy charges and her own addiction and recovery. This is a story of personal redemption in the effects of the ‘War on Drugs’ in an opiate epidemic. We discuss her experience in county jails and state prison in context of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the subreddit support group available for those with encounters of the justice system. We talk about lessons learned and pathways for success in overcoming trauma and criminalization. This is her big debut going public and illustrating some infuriating paradoxes of being incarcerated.


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