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Author of “Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness”
Author of “Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness”
PROFILE
Alisa Roth
FROM Alisa Roth
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why so many people with mental illness end up behind bars The Los Angeles County Jail is the largest psychiatric ward in America. About a quarter of the men imprisoned in LA and nearly half of the women need some form of mental health care. Across the country, jails and prisons are increasingly being forced to provide psychiatric care for their inmate patients. These institutions are not set up to do that.
To the Point
Imprisoning our mentally ill? American jails and prisons have become hospitals for the mentally ill. A murderer doing 20 years at New York’s Sing Sing prison works with schizophrenics serving 24 months for misdemeanors. He tells Warren that sick people should be treated outside. The Sheriff in Chicago says it’s not just inhumane but a waste of taxpayers’ money. How did we get here? What can be done?
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