More Teacher Walkouts Across The U.S. And How Prisons Became The New Asylums (Diane Rehm, On My Mind)

Thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado walked out of their classrooms this week to demand higher pay and increased school funding. This follows a string of similar protests in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky. Can this lead to meaningful change within the country’s public school system?

Then, the three largest providers of psychiatric care in the U.S. are not hospitals or clinics, but jails: Rikers Island in New York, L.A. County Jail in Los Angeles and the Cook County Jail in Chicago. A new book tells the story of how our jails and prisons became America’s new asylums.
Interview:
https://dianerehm.org/shows/2018-04-27/more-teacher-walkouts-across-the-u-s-and-why-prisons-are-the-new-asylums