What is the Baker Act?
In this episode Jesse interviews Bacardi Jackson from the Southern Poverty Law Center about The Baker Act, a mental health law in Florida that was used to involuntarily detain children over 37,000 times in one year.
Guests in this episode are:
Bacardi Jackson:
https://www.splcenter.org/about/staff/bacardi-jackson
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Costly and Cruel:
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_special_report_baker_act_costly_and_cruel.pdf
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable
