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Insane
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- De: Alisa Roth
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell 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 more humane approach might look.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great required reading
- De K. C. H en 01-16-19
- Insane
- America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
- De: Alisa Roth
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
One of the Most Important Books Today
Revisado: 01-27-20
I loved this book, halfway through listening to it I ordered a copy for my father, who is a Vietnam war veteran with schizophrenia and PTSD, and who also spent time in the prison system. This book was hard to listen to at times because of how dark the content is, and because it hits close to home. One story mentioned was nearly identical to what had happened to my brother, who also suffered from mental illness and was fatally shot during an episode. I had no idea this had happened as commonly, and that it had happened again two county's over from where my brother was killed. Many accounts in this book also mirror anecdotes from my father's experiences in prison. My father has been reading this book almost one chapter at a time, and usually calls me afterwards to vent and discuss. He's told me it has validated his struggles from both being caught up in the system himself, and also losing his son. This book is very powerful and informative of the prison system across the United states, as well as possible ways to fix it. If you read anything this year, you have to read this.
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