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Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental illness. Since 1949, the United States has observed the month of May as Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness and educate the public about mental illnesses, the realities of living with these conditions, and strategies for attaining mental health and wellness. In this episode of Measured Justice, our hosts Erik Luna and Ashley Oddo are joined by Stephen Morse, the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, and Associate Director for the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; as well as Margo Schlanger, the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, to discuss the effects of mental health on the criminal justice system. Our guests take a look at mental health while incarcerated including access to care, access to medications and the types of charges that can be attributed to mental health issues; the implications of solitary confinement on a prisoner's mental health; and the fact that prisoners with mental health issues are more likely to be incarcerated for a longer period of time and have a worse experience in incarceration than those without.
The Biden administration could pay out up to $1 billion to immigrant families that were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration. According to The Wall Street Journal, the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services could end up paying out close to $1 million per immigrant family that was separated at the border. Sources told the Journal that around $450,000 a person is being considered, but that figure could change depending on each family's circumstances. Discussions of payouts have taken place over the course of the past few months between lawyers representing immigrant families that are suing the federal government and the government's own lawyers, according to the Journal. Some government lawyers apparently viewed the payout amounts as excessive. Margo Schlanger, a Homeland Security officer for civil rights and civil liberties during the Obama administration, told the Journal, “Damage class actions in this kind of case are pretty rare, it's hard to think of a recent comparison.” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is representing multiple families in a lawsuit over the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. In January, it issued a statement urging the incoming Biden administration to act quickly on the issue. “The incoming administration must reunite the separated families in the United States, but we cannot stop there. These families deserve citizenship, resources, care, and a commitment that family separation will never happen again.” The Biden administration created the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families, and its latest progress report, released in September, confirmed it had reunified 50 children separated from their parents and provided access to behavioral health services. Another 2,171 children have been reunified through a court order and from the efforts of nongovernmental organizations. However, the same report confirmed 1,727 children have not yet been reunified with their families, accounting for 33 percent of all those identified as separated from their parents by the Homeland Security Department under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The ACLU is still battling its lawsuit with the Biden administration and according to the Journal, not all the families it's representing will be eligible for a potential financial settlement. The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review of the Justice Department's zero tolerance policy and found that under former attorney general Jeff Sessions, the agency “failed to effectively prepare for, or manage, the implementation of the zero tolerance policy.” http://globalreportage.org/2021/10/29/biden-administration-considering-giving-450000-per-person-to-immigrants-separated-at-the-border/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/global-reportage/support
In this episode, we speak with Professor Margo Schlanger, the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She is the lead author of a leading casebook, Incarceration and the Law (2020), which can be found at Incarcerationlaw.com. In the episode, we discuss prisoners rights in the time of COVID and Professor Schlanger's recent article in the Northwestern University Law Review (https://northwesternlawreview.org/issues/incrementalist-vs-maximalist-reform-solitary-confinement-case-studies/).
We talk to University of Michigan law professor Margo Schlanger about the barriers faced by prisoners with disabilities. We consider the need for prison reform given the overrepresentation of inmates with disabilites in US and Canadian prisons. This is the August 16, 2020 episode.
This episode addresses the state of prisoners and prisoner treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have pulled in leaders in prisoner treatment standards and release litigation from across the nation to share their successes and challenges from their respective geographies. This episode we hear from Margo Schlanger in Michigan, Tina Luongo in NYC, Cynthia Orr of Texas and Jaime Hawk of Seattle.
On The Gist, John Hockenberry’s piece in Harper’s. Donald Trump is no stranger to settlements, and the latest of these come between his administration and hundreds of asylum-seekers. They were rejected after making their cases under the duress of being separated from their children … or their parents. “How are the kids supposed to say why they fear persecution? Try having that conversation with a 4-year-old,” says Margo Schlanger, who headed the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties under Obama. If approved by the court, the settlement would give the migrants a second chance to apply for asylum. In the Spiel, impeachment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On The Gist, John Hockenberry’s piece in Harper’s. Donald Trump is no stranger to settlements, and the latest of these come between his administration and hundreds of asylum-seekers. They were rejected after making their cases under the duress of being separated from their children … or their parents. “How are the kids supposed to say why they fear persecution? Try having that conversation with a 4-year-old,” says Margo Schlanger, who headed the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties under Obama. If approved by the court, the settlement would give the migrants a second chance to apply for asylum. In the Spiel, impeachment. This episode is brought to you by Slack, a workplace communication hub. Find out more at slack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An interview with Margo Schlanger about her upcoming teach-out on civil rights. It's online and free, starting May 21. http://ai.umich.edu/teach-out/ https://www.clearinghouse.net diydemocracypodcast@gmail.com Music by Evan Schaeffer
The Huffington Post released a scathing report revealing that 811 people — or more 2 people per day — have died while being held in an American jail since Sandra Bland’s death inside of the Waller County Jail in Texas one year ago. Unlike prisons, suicide is the leading cause of death in U.S. jails since people are sent there right after they’ve been arrested and are often angry, desperate or afraid. According to the report, they may also be intoxicated or have psychiatric conditions that are easily overlooked by police officers. We discussed this shocking report and solutions to decrease the fatality rate inside U.S. jails with Margo Schlanger, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
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