Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

By Roth, Alisa

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9780465094196 9780465094202
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Reviewed on June 1, 2018  |  Calls for Reform

As reported here by veteran journalist Roth, mental illness affects more than half of the inmates in U.S. prisons, and mass incarceration has aggravated the problem. As a result, correctional facilities have become mental health providers by default, exhibiting many of the poor conditions and abusive aspects of mental asylums of the past. Roth mines an impressive array of interviews, case studies, official records, research, and statistics to support this view....Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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