Ann Bracken has written two books recently that we talk about in this episode. First we discuss her project of prison poetry called Once You're Inside: Poems Exploring Incarceration in which she describes her experience teaching students inside a Maryland prison. We also discuss her second book, Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery, in which she describes her experience growing up with a mother who was overmedicated and eventually being overmedicated herself. We cover prison education, the prison industrial complex, SSRIs, set and setting, overmedication, doctor-client relationships, the value of spiritual stories and methods for healing, and lots more. 

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