Uncarcerated

Welcome to Season 3 of Uncarcerated with Leigh Scott and Kevin Scott. We have a super special episode to kick off Season 3 with as Kelly takes us through her journey of incarceration, trauma, addiction and a precipitous rise to community advocate. Amazing story!!

We sit down with our good friend Emily Westerholm from Released Reentry to talk about the challenges with reentering society and what Released is doing to fill that gap and help assist people as they come home.

On this latest episode of Uncarcerated - we get an incredibly insightful, honest look into how loneliness can spiral into addiction and how quickly you can lose everything. Brandon opens up about incarceration and the support it takes to succeed coming home. Please like, rate and subscribe. 

Uncarcerated shifts the narrative and breaks the stigma of incarceration and nobody does that better than John Schaefer. Deeply insightful and keenly self aware this is a brilliant analysis of everything wrong with addiction services and the criminal justice system and everything right with someone fighting for the ives of himself and his friends. Become a sponsor of Uncarcerated so we can get these stories out to as many people as possible. 

Uncarcerated talks all things "Just" as we journey into the world of Just. He shares his personal journey at the hands of an unfair playing field and unjust legal system and despite all that his personal and professional triumphs!! Go to Anchor to a be a monthly subscriber to the show!!

We have a fascinating deep dive with "Poet" as we talk prison reform and his personal journey home. Please subscribe and go to Anchor to find out how you can be a monthly supporter of the show!!

Brand new episode of Uncarcerated featuring Latashia Brimm, activist, advocate, mom, Grace Grows board member, outreach specialist and all around amazing human! Please like, rate and subscribe and follow us @uncarcerated on social media

On this episode of Uncarcerated, we discuss the various prison hustles - from gambling to the laundry man, no hustle to big or small for this show. Please like, rate, subscribe, share and leave a comment. 

Uncarcerated explores the world of prison reform, abolition, justice reform, and formerly incarcerated individuals' personal journeys. In this episode, we hit an absolute home run with an absolute jewel of a person, Jhody Polk. Jhody is a force of nature. She has many accomplishments - Founder and President of the Legal Empowerment Advocacy Hub (LEAH), Soros Justice Fellow, former director of Community Justice at the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding, and so much more... but most importantly, she's Jhody, one of the best humans we've ever encountered. So subscribe and enjoy this enlightening engagement.

We talk with Tim Bryant who has an organization that brings meditation and some inner peace and connection to an isolated group...our forgotten citizen souls...incarcerated individuals. 

On this episode we give you (the listeners...you absolute geniuses for choosing this show) a disclaimer on all of the murky, funny, tragic, awful. wonderful, deep, disgusting and meaningful topics we will discuss on this show!!

On this episode of Uncarcerated we have a fascinating conversation with a formerly incarcerated man named "Jus" as he weaves a journey of breaking down barriers, overcoming stigma and shows us his brilliant how-to/can-do will and wit. Like, rate, subscribe and follow us @Uncarcerated on Twitter

Uncarcerated Season 2 we have a deep, insightful conversation with Mike C about his upbringing in addiction, trauma, juvenile detention, the loss of his mother and eventual incarceration. This story has an unbelievably amazing ending though. Like, rate,subscribe and follow us @uncarcerated across all social media platforms. 

Part 3 of our conversation with Kevin Scott of Community Spring and Just Income GNV (jingnv.org). More to come with Kevin as he will be joining the show permanently!!

In this continuing conversation with Dr. Jillian Vella,PHD, licensed mental health counselor we talk about a range of topics including, generational & childhood trauma, shame, insecurity, abject poverty and marginalized people and how we have focused on institutions and psychotropics to deal with people rather than treat and heal the root causes of extreme states.  We discuss how we moved forward caring for communities and preventing issues before we lock entire generations of people away.  Please like, rate, subscribe and download. 

In this episode of Uncarcerated, we talk to a man recently freed after being sentenced to 43 years.  Jason gets real and honest about the mistakes he's made and the trauma he faced in Indiana state prison system. From gang activity and drug abuse to redirecting his life through self help and group therapy, Jason is open and raw.  This is Part 1 and stay tuned for Part 2 as we take a look into Jason's first few months of freedom and gaze into the crystal ball of where his life goes from here.  Please like, rate and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!!

Flying solo as we discuss Universal basic income for recently freed individuals, the death of a good friend of mine, the importance of writing down your goals and the show is LIVE from Los Angeles!!! Please like, rate, download and subscribe

We talk to a young black man from Jacksonville, Fl. in our most powerful episode yet. Corey discusses the injustice he discovered as a person of color in America, the abuse in the Dept. of Corrections and the tools he used to overcome the struggles as he has transformed his body, mind and spirit. Please listen, download, like, rate and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

In part 2 of our emotional journey into Daniels experience, we explore death, addiction, corruption in the Dept. of Corrections, starting a family and what it means to have someone believe in you.

Daniel gets super raw about Florida's juvenile system, growing up in a broken home with drugs&alcohol present, trauma in and out of the prison system and more. This was cathartic and emotional so we decided to make it a two part show.