"A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a
mental illness...Earley has used his considerable skills to
meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly
broken."-Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold 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. 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 into that
experience-and into that of a father and award-winning journalist
trying to fight for a better way.
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