TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roth,Alisa
TI  - Insane: America's criminal treatment of mental illness 
SN  - 9780465094196
AV  - HV6133 .R68 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Mentally ill offenders
KW  - United States
KW  - Services for
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Mental health services
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index; Part I. Ensnared: how we got here -- Jail is the only safe place -- The largest psych ward in America -- The asylum fallacy -- Part II. Locked up: what happens inside -- Jail as hospital -- Destined to fail -- Sanctioned torture -- Better off dead -- Guilty by reason of insanity -- Part III. Breaking free: toward a better way -- Inside out -- The cycle -- Shooting the victim -- The good-cop solution -- Disorder in the court
N2  - An expose of the mental-health crisis in America's courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation's inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric problem, examines how inmates are denied treatment, and suggests a more humane approach
ER  -