ALISA ROTH — Roving Reporter ALISA ROTH — Roving Reporter

Alisa Roth is a print & radio reporter. Her book, Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, about mental illness & the criminal justice system, is out now from Basic Books.

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NEWS & PRESS

A worried mom wanted the police to take her mentally ill son to the hospital. They shot him.

www.vox.com

Insane

www.c-span.org

Is It Illegal To Be Mentally Ill?

think.kera.org

Letters and Politics

kpfa.org

New York Times Book Review Podcast

www.nytimes.com

Criminalizing Mental Illness

www.wnyc.org

‘Insane’: America’s 3 Largest Psychiatric Facilities Are Jails

www.npr.org

How mental illness has become a ticket to jail.

www.marketplace.org

Prisons Are the New Asylums

www.theatlantic.com

A ‘hellish world’: the mental health crisis overwhelming America’s prisons.

www.theguardian.com