[E–pub] Crazy by Pete Earley By Pete Earley
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Free download Crazy by Pete Earley 107 This is the Earley family's compelling story a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care brutal conditions instead of treatment in the revolving doors between hospital and jail With mass deinstitutiona. For such a keenly personal story Earley s writing is very dry and not compelling He is first and foremost a journalist so maybe that s to be expected When I heard of this title I didn t know it presented two dovetailing stories one family s struggle to treat a bipolar son and the full scale institutional disorder of a state penitentiary used to hold and treat the mentally ill after they ve committed a crime In the absence of a compassionate hospital system that offers treatment early on before it s too late that has become our nation s strategy for care3 stars out of 5 Mental illness is not something to be romanticized and I applaud Earley for writing with the intent to spur social change Our nation s me
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Free download Crazy by Pete Earley 107 Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system But it was only when his own son in the throes of a manic episode broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. 45 starsI recently read and reviewed a book similar to this one about America s incarceration of large numbers of mentally ill individuals Insane America s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth My review this book Crazy A Father s Search Through America s Mental Health Madness Pete Earley writes about different prisons than Roth but the basic story is similar People with mental problems such as bipolar disorder schizophrenia schizoaffective disorder depression etc can t or don t or won t get appropriate treatments and end up in jail sometimes for relatively minor offensesAuthor Pete EarleyThen because the accused are not fit to stand trial or can t deal with their circumstances or ar
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Free download Crazy by Pete Earley 107 Lization large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago Earley takes us directly into that experience and into that of a father and award winning journalist trying to fight for a better w. One clich about the rise and fall of a family s wealth is from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations The treatment of the seriously mentally ill in the United States could be similarly described as from naked in the jail cell to naked in the jail cell in two centuries In the early 19th century the Reverend Louis Dwight found in a Boston jail an insane prisoner who was naked in a jail cell without furniture though with a comfy pile of dirty straw In the early 21st century author and former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley found in the Miami Dade County Pretrial Detention Center henceforth the Miami jail found that those mentally ill prisoners who had attempted suicide we