Criminalizing Mental Illness

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 19, 2018

The mentally ill account for nearly 40% of those incarcerated in Rikers Island. Alisa Roth, former reporter at Marketplace, a Soros justice fellow and the author of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness (Basic Books, 2018), reports on the nationwide problem of the criminalization of mental illness and the strain it puts on the justice system, and the cost to the individuals not getting proper treatment.

→Event: Alisa Roth will be in conversation with Eyal Press on Tuesday, April 24 at Book Culture in Long Island City at 7:00 PM. 

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