An eye-opening book that cries out for change."- Kirkus (starred review), "Deep, broad and well documented. "50 percent of the mentally ill go untreated-half of them because they can't afford it.The place where the poor are likely to get treated, if anywhere, is prison.With an eye not toward shaming but toward progress, gestures at solutions."- San Antonio Express-News, "A searing exposé about the criminalization of mental illness.Though the subject matter dictates that much of the book is relentlessly depressing, the author is such a talented information gatherer and fluid stylist that the narrative becomes compulsive reading.
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