Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable. She also surveys a range of efforts to address the problem, making the case for a large-scale overhaul of mental health care and criminal justice. About My book, Insane: Americas Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, (Basic Books, hardcover 2018 paperback 2020) is a narrative investigation of the crisis of mental illness in the criminal. As many as half the people in US jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. The countrys three largest providers of mental health care are not hospitals, but jails. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with mental illness. Investigating police departments, courts, jails, and emergency health care facilities across the country, Roth provides the first nationwide account of this mental health crisis-and uncovers the hidden forces behind it. Author: Alisa Roth (Author) Summary: In America, having a mental illness has become a crime. She introduces us to ordinary people whose untreated mental illnesses drive them repeatedly into the justice system-and in some cases, to their deaths. She takes readers from the overwhelmed mental health units of the Los Angeles County Jail to the women’s prisons of Oklahoma, which have one of the fastest-growing populations of people with mental illness in the country. In Insane, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to reveal how America’s tough-on-crime policies have transformed it into a warehouse for people with mental illness, one where prisoners are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker.
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