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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  1. 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
    A view of prison employees from inside a cell in the Secured Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, in February 2012
    Jim Wilson / The New York Times / Redux