A local nonprofit that serves homeless veterans is now prohibited from offering them treatment for substance use disorder. We learn why. Then, we hear about how the new KPBS 'true crime' podcast, Free Jane, came to be.
FALL ARTS GUIDE: From visual art to literature, here are our top picks for art and culture in San Diego this fallS1: Welcome to KPBS roundtable. I'm Andrew Bowen. A non-profit that serves homeless veterans is now prohibited from offering them treatment for substance use disorder.S1: Then a new true crime podcast from KPBS chronicles the exoneration of a woman who was convicted of murdering her husband.
S1: And scrutiny of veterans. Village really intensified as some of their clients started dying. Tell me about those deaths and what we know about them. Yeah. S1: We'll get more into what this means for the patients who are at this facility. But , Andrew , I want to talk to you about what kind of stature this organization has in San Diego. So Veterans Village , as Greg mentioned , has been around since the early 80s.
S1: I'm thinking about how difficult it can be to convince a patient in to actually enter one of these treatment programs , even those who wish to enter treatment programs can't always find placement in one of them. And , you know , this population is is a very high needs population. These are the folks who can't afford to go off to some rehab program in Malibu on the beach , you know.
S2: Kind of the other side of the house , though , is you have to remember that there are people who are there from the VA , a kind of under the VA umbrella. Then there are people who come from the county , and it's those people through the drug Medi-Cal program , they were the larger , there were more of them. I think there were 74 of them , and I think there were 41 veterans there.
S1: Let's talk more about that media coverage. So what are some examples of how Jane's story was handled by , you know , our peers , journalists and , uh , problems with that and how it sort of played out in , in her trial and ultimate conviction. Yeah. S1: Katie KPBS doesn't tend to report a lot on individual crimes. We try to look at the bigger picture trends in in the system. However , Jane's story has larger ties into that criminal justice system.
S4: Thank you Katie. That's that's really nice. And Katie did a beautiful job hosting it. And the other thing is , I just want to give gratitude to Jane for being open to talking about her story and for , you know , all of the people who who are open in , in doing interviews and and providing information and resources for this.
S1: Yeah , I read that there were like 500 businesses that were evacuated. And it these public officials are always in a really tough spot when an emergency happens like this , because you don't want to be so cautious that you send off alarms and cause people to panic unnecessarily. But you also want to make sure people are safe. And it sounds like they didn't quite know how dangerous this fire was going to be. Right.
S1: Yeah. Well , speaking of air quality , there was another story I had my eyes on this week about the Tijuana River Valley. So we know that , you know , we've we've been seeing a lot of sewage spill over from Tijuana into the Tijuana River. And then it kind of comes through that whole valley and empties out into the ocean on the United States side. We've known that this has really bad public health impacts for water quality.
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