Waiting for an Echo : : the Madness of American Incarceration

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Call Number: 365.608 Mo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Law / Montross, Christine
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Introduction -- Our prisoners. Three hots and a cot ; How are you on the Fourth of July? ; Since eleven ; You got kids? ; Jail, not Yale ; Born on third base -- Our prisons. The architecture of control ; The lost people ; Minnows and killer whales ; Imagine your bathroom -- Our choice. Nutraloaf ; Better neighbors ; I am helping your ; Good news.
Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care-- and what happened to them therein. The result is a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones. Montross found that while our system of correction routinely makes people with mental illness worse, just as routinely it renders mentally stable people psychiatrically unwell. This is a practice that punishes us all. -- adapted from jacket

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