Social Worker on Steel a.k.a. The Steel Stories

Social Worker on Steel was named as I spent twenty-five years providing placement and legal services in Contra Costa County California's Locked facilities. This included three jails, many locked facilities, hospitals in and out of the county, and Juvenile Hall. Placements could be in any licensed drug, alcohol, or mental health facility. I was limited in that most of my 29,998 clients were indigent. Some Contra Costa Public Defenders' clients were guilty. The innocent were handled by the public defenders without intervention from me. These stories needed to be told, as most of the poor are invisible.