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. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. Join us at Book Culture LIC to celebrate the release of Alisa Roth's new book Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness on Tuesday, April 24th at 7pm! Alisa will be joined in conversation by Eyal Press.Īmerica has made mental illness a crime.
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