![]() ![]() The following section evaluates how correctional facilities provide such care, concluding that failure is inevitable in a security-based, low-resource environment. ![]() Initial chapters discuss how and why the mentally ill are easily drawn into the criminal justice system, including a history of U.S. ![]() The book is organized around the process of criminalization. Roth mines an impressive array of interviews, case studies, official records, research, and statistics to support this view. As a result, correctional facilities have become mental health providers by default, exhibiting many of the poor conditions and abusive aspects of mental asylums of the past. prisons, and mass incarceration has aggravated the problem. As reported here by veteran journalist Roth, mental illness affects more than half of the inmates in U.S. ![]()
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