A Conversation with Nancy Leazer – How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses and The Lakota People’s Law Center Revisited

A Conversation with Nancy Leazer - How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses When the Municipal Correctional Institution was closed in 2009 and all the inmates moved to the county jail, a lot more than the jobs of the employees were lost. The leadership and staff of MCI brought in local not for profits to provide services that the city could not afford to addressed the mental health, drug abuse, homelessness and other problems of the inmates. This created an atmosphere of respect of and concern for the prisoners by the administration, staff and organizations that came to provide services. None of those connections and resources have been invited in to the county jail where Kansas City now houses their prisoners and that has resulted in more recidivism. Today's host Dr JRenee talks with Nancy Leazer, former Superintendent of Corrections at MCI about how she came to the job and the atmosphere she fostered in the facility. She explains how she worked with local service providers to get help for the inmates and trained her staff to treat the inmates with respect. The Lakota People’s Law Project – Wresting Their Children Back From The State Every afternoon,…