Alisa Roth

Alisa Roth is a correspondent for APM Reports and the author of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.

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The Truth About Deinstitutionalization

A popular theory links the closing of state psychiatric hospitals to the increased incarceration of people with mental illness. But the reality is more complicated.
- Alisa Roth
- May 25, 2021
Joe McKendry

Prisons Are the New Asylums

A very short book excerpt
- Alisa Roth
- April 2018 Issue