![]() ![]() 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. As many as half the people in US jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. The country's three largest providers of mental health care are not hospitals, but jails. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with mental illness. Summary: In America, having a mental illness has become a crime. ![]()
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