Introduction to In-Care-Ceration: A Podcast

In-care-ceration is a documentary podcast about how Washington’s so-called mental health system is entangled with the carceral system. How do people in need of mental health care end up losing their freedom, whether in a hospital, jail, or prison? How do these institutions care for people? Do they care for people at all? Are community calls for a more caring system having their intended impact?

We especially tune in to how improving care is a guise for expanding confinement and coercion. The podcast episodes feature voices from advocates and people who have experience in the jail, prison or mental health systems. We hope thatthis podcast can support future campaigns to stop carceral expansion.

About the Producers / Co-Hosts

Leah Montange is a human geographer who words toward prison and immigration detention abolition in the PNW. She teaches, writes, and creates media (like this podcast).

Meredith Ruff is an attorney turned bureaucrat (oh no!). She has been organizing with people in prison since 2017.