"Solitary Confinement" with Jonathan Blake (MSW)

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Jonathan Blake is currently a Licensed Social Worker in Pennsylvania. Jonathan obtained both Bachelor’s (BSW) and Master’s (MSW) degrees in Social work from Marywood University, graduating with his MSW ins 2014. Jonathan has worked in the substance use field, as a primary counselor in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and currently works as a medical social worker, with main focus on behavioral health.
Blake is also the (LSW) of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
Today we discuss "Solitary Confinement" in prisons, and the movement to make it's abolishment a ballot measure. Action Committees, advocacy, and legal battles are being waged in multiple states to see this change in US Human Rights come to pass.

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Chapters

1. Introduction to today's episode. (00:00:00)

2. What’s the difference between a county jail and state prison? (00:05:05)

3. What is a violation? What is solitary confinement? (00:13:35)

4. What’s the definition of torture? (00:21:23)

5. What’s the disconnect? Most of these people are not violent criminals. (00:25:41)

6. How the word “victim” can be used to frame people as victims. (00:30:06)

7. The violent environment in prisons. (00:34:38)

8. What’s the support look like in early sobriety? (00:41:11)

9. Is any of this outside support that comes with group therapy coupled with individual therapy that wouldn’t be considered 12 step therapy? (00:46:58)

10. What was it like being in jail? (00:51:51)

11. Who are the people on the outside that are the voice? (00:58:11)