{"product_id":"waiting-for-an-echo-the-madness-of-american-incarceration-9780143110668","title":"Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A haunting and harrowing indictment . . . [a] significant achievement.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eL.A. Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize Finalist * \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Paperback Row * \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Best New Books July 2020 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for an Echo\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American jails and prisons. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. This expertise--the mind in crisis--has enabled her to reckon with the human stories behind mass incarceration. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Christine Montross\u003c\/b\u003e, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction, is an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a practicing inpatient psychiatrist. She is an award-winning poet and the author of \u003ci\u003eBody of Work\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFalling into the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922691297554,"sku":"9780143110668","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f980eb0d-3e15-4006-b95e-50a828c0e922.jpg?v=1738937460","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/waiting-for-an-echo-the-madness-of-american-incarceration-9780143110668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}