Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781541646476
ISBN-10: 1541646479
Addition ISBN: 9780465094196, 0465094201, 9780465094202
Author(s): Alisa Roth, Publisher: Basic Books, Copyright: 2020
An urgent exposéf the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America’s jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.