![]() ![]() Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable. jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. ![]() ![]() 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. Journalist Alisa Roth reported that nearly half the people in U.S. 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. She introduces us to ordinary people whose untreated mental illnesses drive them repeatedly into the justice system-and in some cases, to their deaths. Alisa Roth has written a chilling book that argues that American jails and prisons have become de facto warehouses for the mentally illAmerica has never quite. Alisa Roth Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness Hardcover Apby Alisa Roth (Author) 281 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 18.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 25.74 41 Used from 3.36 9 New from 21.44 1 Collectible from 39. 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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