Name: Dorsey Smith

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Mass Incarceration in the U.S.

Date of Fieldwork: February 14, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Prison Law-Jacob Hutt

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We interviewed Jacob Hutt. He works at Prison Law as a attorney. He helps people who incarcerated with mental health problems and people with disability’s. He taught us about how prisons have little to no resources for people with mental health problems, health problems, and disability’s.

During the interview we asked how do incarcerated people with mental health problems receive the treatment they need? He responded with “The prisons help people who are suicidal with the short term solution by isolating them so that they can’t harm themselves, which doesn’t help them in the long term.” This answer gave us a whole different perspective of what prisons do if a person is suicidal. He was super amazing to interview and gave us a lot of great information.