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Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration
Waiting for an Echo The Madness of American Incarceration Author:Christine Montross Dr. 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 discharhed from her care-and what happened to them therein. This book is a riveting, rare seen glimpse into American incarceration. It is also a da... more »mning account of policies that have incriminated mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones. The stark world of American prisons is shocking for all who enter it. But Dr. Montross's expertise-the mind in crisis-allowed her to reckon with the human stories behind the bars. Montross finds that while our system of correction routinely makes people with mental illness worse, just as routinely it renders mentally stable people psychiatrically unwell. The system is quite literally maddening.« less