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Why the mentally ill end up in jails and prisons

Hosted by Madeleine Brand Jul. 03, 2018

image of and Alcatraz escape cell by Derek Key.

From this Episode:

State of migrant family reunification efforts nationally and in LA

On Monday, a federal judge in Washington said the government must release or hold hearings for more than 1000 asylum seekers currently in detention. These aren’t families...

15 min, 9 sec

EPA chief asked staffers to find his wife a job and get him out of a housing penalty

New details are out on how EPA chief Scott Pruitt spends money and assigns work to his staffers. He asked multiple people to help find a job that pays $200,000/year for his...

8 min, 36 sec

Why so many people with mental illness end up behind bars

The Los Angeles County Jail is the largest psychiatric ward in America. About a quarter of the men imprisoned in LA and nearly half of the women need some form of mental...

15 min, 24 sec

Britain's love-hate relationship with the World Cup

The nation that invented soccer has a love-hate relationship with the World Cup. Press Play’s Christian Bordal sat down with English expat Roger Bennett right before the...

9 min, 34 sec

Credits

Host:
Madeleine Brand

Producers:
Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Christian Bordal, Quinn O'Toole, Yael Even Or, Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir

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