Crazy A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Name: Crazy A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
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ISBN: 9780425213896

ISBN-10: 0425213897

ISBN-13: 9780425213896

Edition: N/A

Authors: Pete Earley

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Former Washington Postreporter 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. 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 deinstitutionalization, 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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.01" wide x 8.91" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Pete Early lives near Washington, D.C.