Jail Psychologist

Episode 13: What Tax Cuts and Methamphetamine Have in Common

On the surface, cutting taxes and smoking methamphetamine don’t seem to have much in common.

Mar 12 • Jail Psychologist

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Episode 12: The Structural Limits of Mental Health Care in Jails

This article is part of our introductory series on jail mental health.

Mar 5 • Jail Psychologist

February 2026

Episode 11: The Federal Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Rule is Wasting Your Tax Dollars

The Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Rule is often described as a way to save taxpayer money.

Feb 26 • Jail Psychologist

Episode 10: Crisis Management

Today’s article is about managing mental health crises in jails.

Feb 19 • Jail Psychologist

Episode 9: Why Your Jail Will (Probably) Always Be Short Staffed

The Scope of the Staffing Crisis

Feb 12 • Jail Psychologist

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Episode 8: How Jails Prevent Suicide

And Why It's So Hard

Feb 5 • Jail Psychologist

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January 2026

Episode 7: Medical Intake

The Most Important 10 Minutes in Jail

Jan 29 • Jail Psychologist

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Episode 6 (Part II): Jail 101

In the previous article, we covered the basic mechanics of how jails operate.

Jan 22 • Jail Psychologist

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Episode 6 (Part I): Jail 101

In the previous series, we examined how economic forces have driven rising rates of mental illness—especially among young people.

Jan 15 • Jail Psychologist

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Episode 5: How to Fix Things

In the previous episode, we examined how extreme wealth concentration took hold in the United States—and how the same mechanisms that concentrated…

Jan 8 • Jail Psychologist

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Episode 4: The Rise of Extreme Wealth Concentration

In the previous article, I explained how the United States experienced high living standards between 1945 and 1970, how external economic shocks led…

Jan 1 • Jail Psychologist

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December 2025

Episode 3: How Policy Created Financial Insecurity

In the previous article, I explained why depression is not the result of a chemical imbalance, but rather an economic one.

Dec 26, 2025 • Jail Psychologist

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