Nancy Leazer – How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses; Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie

A Replay - A Conversation with Nancy Leazer – How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses With the KCMO Jail being evicted from the Jackson County Jail we thought it was time to replay our 2015 interview with Nancy Leazer, the last Director of the old Kansas City Jail, The Farm, before they moved to the Jackson County jail. 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…