Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

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An urgent expos of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house 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 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. Download Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness – kino-fada.fr 4.5 stars As a 2014 2015 Soros Justice Fellow , investigative journalist Alisa Roth spent a year studying the plight of mentally ill prisoners in the U.S Criminal Justice System Roth visited jails and prisons in New York, Illinois, California, Georgia, and Oklahoma She also interviewed mentally ill subjects and their families consulted experts perused medical and jail records inspected court reports and other public documents and read newspaper articles, books, and other source material 4.5 stars As a 2014 2015 Soros Justice Fellow , investigative journalist Alisa Roth spent a year studying the plight of mentally ill prisoners in the U.S Criminal Justice System Roth visited jails and prisons in New York, Illinois, California, Georgia, and Oklahoma She also interviewed mentally ill subjects and their families consulted experts perused medical and jail records inspected court reports and other public documents and read newspaper articles, books, and other s...Some sources say, upon his journey to the continent of north America the famous British writer, Charles Dickens, creator of Oliver twist, defender of humanity, had sworn to himself to see two things in this once new world 1 Niagara falls 2 Eastern state penitentiary The famous Philadelphia based prison While I can not comment on his experiences at the famous waterfall, I will present a musing of his upon visiting the prison I hold this slow and daily tamperi...Roth does a great job of exposing some of the real inadequacies in our criminal justice system as they relate to mental health and I think her appraisal of the situation is fair and accurate While I don t think she nece...Whatever you think life is like behind bars, think again Roth s intimate yet powerful look at how our prison system handles mentally ill inmates will take you through the pits of hell and back again This left me withquestions than answers, andfrustrated than angry We are the richest country in the world yet we are unable to afford adequate mental health care for those who need it most Are...An important topic presented in a well researched manner Our system definitely needs reform Good to see some cities have started to implement new strategies, but we still have a long way to go.as someone who used to work in the medical field, I can say this author has it right the treatment of those who are mentally ill should not be placed in a jail, but in a separate facility that can oversee the mentally ill and help them get back on their feet so often there is no place to put a person on the edge of insanity mental health establishment are usually full and not accepting any new person the jail is wrong because it does not address the central issue of why the person is in cust as someone who used to work in the medical field, I can say this author has it right the treatment of those who are mentally ill should not be placed in a jail, but in a separate facility that can oversee the mentally ill and help them get back on their feet so often there is no place to put a person on the edge of insanity mental health establishment are usually full and not accepting any new person the jail is wrong because it does not address the central issue of why the person is in custody do like the idea ofmental health training for those first responders whether they are EMT, police or fire also like the idea of having a continued oversight from the time they are first encountered to the time they are released to housing and medical followup I wish the general public would view mental health the same way it views cardiac, diabetes, or any other disease there will be times of abatement of symptoms and there will be flareup...This was a hard, hard, HARD book to read, but I wish we were havingconversations about the topic This was a really in depth look at the prison system in America and how prisons treat and are sometimes asked to care for those with mental illness With very little mental health care being affordable or available for a number of Americans, prisons are overflowing with inmates who have some type of mental illness for a number of reasons And the state of prisons also exacerbates mental illnes This was a hard, hard, HA...While at times dry, this was an informative and sometimes wrenching book about how and why prisons across America have such large populations of mentally ill inmates.This book is horrifying, but such a necessary read Another example of how the greatest country in the world can be extremely backward and evil in the way we treat certain groups of people.This book got me thinking about our current policies and procedures regarding mentally ill criminals and it seemed very well researched There are some disturbing stories and many of the situations were like ones my husband encountered while working at a state run...

Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
  • 01 May 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 0465094198
  • Alisa Roth
  • Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness