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100 1  Montross, Christine,|eauthor. 
245 10 Waiting for an echo :|bthe madness of American 
       incarceration /|cChristine Montross, M.D. 
263    2006 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2020. 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    331 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-317) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction -- Our prisoners. Three hots and a cot ; How 
       are you on the Fourth of July? ; Since eleven ; You got 
       kids? ; Jail, not Yale ; Born on third base -- Our 
       prisons. The architecture of control ; The lost people ; 
       Minnows and killer whales ; Imagine your bathroom -- Our 
       choice. Nutraloaf ; Better neighbors ; I am helping you ; 
       Good news. 
520    "Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, 
       psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human cost
       of mass incarceration and mental illness. Dr. Christine 
       Montross has spent her career treating the most severely 
       ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out 
       to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up 
       in the legal system when discharged from her care--and 
       what happened to them therein. Waiting for an Echo is a 
       riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American incarceration.
       It is also a damning account of policies that have 
       criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of 
       people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive 
       ones. The stark world of American prisons is shocking for 
       all who enter it. But Dr. Montross's expertise--the mind 
       in crisis--allowed her to reckon with the human stories 
       behind the bars. A father attempting to weigh the 
       impossible calculus of a plea bargain. A bright young 
       woman whose life is derailed by addiction. Boys in a 
       juvenile detention facility who, desperate for human 
       connection, invent a way to communicate with one another 
       from cell to cell. Overextended doctors and correctional 
       officers who strive to provide care and security in 
       environments riddled with danger. In these encounters, 
       Montross finds that while our system of correction 
       routinely makes people with mental illness worse, just as 
       routinely it renders mentally stable people 
       psychiatrically unwell. The system is quite literally 
       maddening. Our methods of incarceration take away not only
       freedom but also selfhood and soundness of mind. In a 
       nation where 95 percent of all inmates are released from 
       prison and return to our communities, this is a practice 
       that punishes us all"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    Montross has spent her career treating the most severely 
       ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out 
       to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up 
       in the legal system when discharged from her care-- and 
       what happened to them therein. The result is a damning 
       account of policies that have criminalized mental illness,
       shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic
       settings into punitive ones. Montross found that while our
       system of correction routinely makes people with mental 
       illness worse, just as routinely it renders mentally 
       stable people psychiatrically unwell. This is a practice 
       that punishes us all. -- adapted from jacket 
650  0 Prison psychology|zUnited States. 
650  0 Imprisonment|zUnited States|xPsychological aspects. 
650  0 Mentally ill|xEffect of imprisonment on|zUnited States. 
650  7 Imprisonment|xPsychological aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00968287 
650  7 Prison psychology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077067 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMontross, Christine.|tWaiting for an 
       echo|dNew York : Penguin Press, 2020.|z9780698152762
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