How we treat people in prison is a marker of our psychological health as a society.

It brings up questions about how we treat our most disenfranchised, how we think about their rights, how we conceive of people who have had limited resources, mental illness, and how dynamics such as race and poverty often determine who gets incarcerated and who doesn’t, and why that happens. I also have a lot of background in the public sector, including working with incarcerated individuals, in prison settings, poor populations in the community with schizophrenia and high risk individuals that have had multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and histories of violence. I treat and get called in for consultations, and can offer expert opinion.

You have the right to become who you want to be and feel safe in the process of doing it.

I am rooting for you.