Roth shows how the dysfunction and cruelty of nineteenth-century asylums have reappeared in modern jails and prisons. On this edition of Your Call, we speak with journalist Alisa Roth about her new book Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.

Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact Dawn Smith 30 and/or the Federal Relay (1-80).The largest providers of psychiatric care in the US aren’t hospitals – they’re jails and prisons. Sign Language Interpreters will be provided. A government-issued photo-identification card (e.g., NIH ID or driver’s license) is required to gain entrance to the building. This event is open without prior registration to all NIH staff and the public.

He has led efforts to enhance and strengthen the State’s Attorney’s Truancy Prevention Program and has led efforts that have expanded the Office’s educational programs to students and parents on internet safety and cyberbullying to prevent crime and victimization. Andrews has helped lead efforts to establish a more pro-active strategy to reduce gang-related violence and recruitment in Montgomery County. In January 2016, a Task Force chaired by Andrews released a report unanimously recommending the establishment of mental health courts at the Circuit and District levels to divert people who commit low-level crimes as a product of mental illness into treatment and services and away from prosecution and incarceration. In December 2014, Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy hired Andrews to develop and implement crime prevention initiatives, beginning with the establishment of mental health courts, and to strengthen community outreach. From 1998-2014, Andrews served for four terms on the Montgomery County Council.

Phil Andrews is the Director of Crime Prevention Initiatives for the State’s Attorney’s Office of Montgomery County, Maryland. She is currently correspondent for a new national mental health reporting initiative at Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media.

A former staff reporter at Marketplace, Roth’s work has also appeared on NPR, and in The New York Times and New York Review of Books. One of the most horrific-and least acknowledged-effects of mass incarceration is the epidemic of mental illness in our jails and prisons.Īlisa Roth, journalist and author of “Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness”, an investigation into the crisis of mental illness in the US criminal justice system, will explain how this happened-and how we can fix it. Location: Neuroscience Center, Conference Room C, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD and WebExįor the thirteenth year the National Institute of Mental Health is pleased to invite you to attend the fifth of a series of lectures dedicated to innovation, invention, and scientific discovery.

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