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Title: Prison Madness : The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It by Terry Kupers ISBN: 0-7879-4361-4 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 22 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The madness is in the writers liberal heart
Comment: This book displays the writers bleeding heart. It hurt mine to finish it. I reccomend reading reality, dealing with mentally ill and behavior problematic offeders is best displayed in the book Dog In Blue: a correctional offices ramblings'
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent, Timely, Sadly True, and Achingly Prophetic
Comment: Dr. Kupers writes honestly about where those who were "saved" by deinstitutionalization ended up and they way they are being treated. It is a scathing indictment of the utter failure of community mental health centers and the professionals practicing within them. It clearly shows how persons are forgotten, ignored or dismissed by community supports and the eventual freefall they experience into corrections. He artfully describes the negativistic labeling, i.e., Borderline or Antisocial Personality Disorders, and the damage done by such perjorative terms. Dr. Kupers shows clearly what is occurring in jails and prisons across the country and lets the reader know this is not the end of the story of the emptying of the hospitals, but the next chapter in the abuse/neglect of the most maligned and oppressed population in America. Thank you Dr. Kupers, for your courage, integrity, and honesty.
Rating: 4
Summary: good read, good place to start real debate
Comment: I was initially excited, because the premise of this book is that the mentally ill are being incarcerated and criminalized because of the failure of comunity mental health, and the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Most people do not realize that the prisons are rapidly becomming the largest providers of mental health services, as is the case in TX. Kupers goes off track and has his own agenda. This book becomes a polemic for diagnosing all inmates as PTSD, just because they are in prison. His claim that as an outsider he is more than objective. I believe the book reports on many problems in a lot of prisons. I kept waiting for him to address, in a meaningful way, managed care and privatization of services. The issue of the mentally ill in prison is a growing problem. I would hope that those who read the book, will try to open dialog about the problems and possible solutions. I work for the managed care organization that provides mental heath services to TX prisons, and many of Kuper's points hit home. I have already recommended the book to my colleges.
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Title: The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by PETE EARLEY ISBN: 0553560239 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner by Donald A. Cabana ISBN: 1555533566 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Violence, Crime and Mentally Disordered Offenders: Concepts and Methods for Effective Treatment and Prevention by Sheilagh Hodgins, Rüdiger Müller-Isberner ISBN: 0471977276 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 23 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison by Andi Rierden ISBN: 1558490809 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.16 |
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Title: Crime Profiles: The Anatomy of Dangerous Persons, Places, and Situations by Terence D. Miethe, Richard McCorkle ISBN: 189148754X Publisher: Roxbury Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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