Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration Montross Christine
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist*New York Times Books to Watch for in July*Time Best New Books July 2020*Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the…
Specifikacia Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration Montross Christine
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist*New York Times Books to Watch for in July*Time Best New Books July 2020*Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human cost of mass incarceration and mental illnessDr. Christine 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.Waiting for an Echo is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American incarceration. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized 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