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Crazy In America: The Hidden Tragedy Of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill, by Mary Beth Pfieffer (Carroll & Graf, 2007, 280 pp. $15.95)
Loaded on May 15, 2008
by David Preston
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2008, page 32
Reviewed by David Preston
Filed under:
Reviews,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
United States of America.
Imagine how tough your life would be if you were trying to cope with schizophrenia or severe depression. Plenty tough, right? Now imagine yourself, a schizophrenic, being suddenly torn from the shelter of your family, denied medication, and tossed into a punishment cell, essentially a sensory-deprivation ...
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