In-care-ceration is a documentary audio series/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 series features voices from advocates and people who have experience in the jail, prison or mental health systems. We hope that this podcast can support future campaigns to stop carceral expansion.

This project was created by Meredith Ruff and Leah Montange in collaboration with the collective No New Washington Prisons. See show overview here.