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this episode.

The three of us are going to be discussing something that we've long warned was coming,

a carcoral shift back toward the era of the total institution that is no longer just a threat,

but is now official policy.

On July 24th, the White House issued a sweeping executive order called

ending crime and disorder on America's streets. It masks a dangerous pivot in homeless and mental

illness policy behind the language of public safety and state benevolence. On its face, it looks

like a crackdown on homelessness, drug use, and so-called public disorder. And it definitely is,

but when you read

it closely and understand the broader context, it also becomes clear that this is the foundation

for a renewed and expanded system of mass institutionalization in the United States.

This order uses pathologization and the language of care to justify a new regime of confinement,

forced treatment, and the organized abandonment of justify a new regime of confinement, forced treatment,

and the organized abandonment of support programs and infrastructure that are non-carceral,

like Housing First, direct cash support, and harm reduction services.

In so doing it echoes longstanding Republican and Democratic calls for a return to mass institutionalization,

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