![]() ![]() She lives in New York.Įyal Press is a writer based in New York. A Soros Justice Fellow, her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books and New York Times. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.Īlisa Roth is a former staff reporter for Marketplace and frequent contributor to various NPR programs. 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. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. ![]() Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. Join us at Book Culture LIC to celebrate the release of Alisa Roth's new book Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness on Tuesday, April 24th at 7pm! Alisa will be joined in conversation by Eyal Press.Īmerica has made mental illness a crime. ![]()
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