Crazy in America
The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
280 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780786717453
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A critical exposé of the mistreatment of mentally ill patients in the American prison system reveals how an estimated quarter of a million inmates suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious illnesses for which they are denied treatment and routinely subjected to punitive measures. Original.
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