6/26/2023 0 Comments Insane by Alisa Rothnavigates it with grace."- Marshall Project "Roth got rare access, including at mental health units inside the Los Angeles County Jail and a women's prison in Oklahoma, and dove deep into the stories of a handful of individuals whose florid mental illness led them to prison, was badly managed and resulted in awful outcomes. "Superb.Roth stresses America's failure to provide the vital community mental health services first promised in the Kennedy years.Some of the most revealing sections of Insane deal with the officers who patrol these wards.Burnout is inevitable."- New York Review of Books "This essential exposé, which includes tragic case histories, tells of legions of prisoners put in solitary confinement or subdued with medication.At the heart of the problem, Roth notes, is the changing landscape of mental-health care."- New Yorker Insane is rife with sharp, brutal details that pull the reader beyond the realms of abstract policy debates."- New York Times Book Review "Chilling.Roth writes movingly of the human toll of incarceration.She convincingly diagnoses the glaring inadequacies of mental health treatment in prison but she is not out for scapegoats. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).
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