Why the mentally ill end up in jails and prisons

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

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...

9 min

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

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...

10 min

Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

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