Mental Illness And The Criminal Justice System
September 17, 2013How are the courts and mental health service providers working to solve the issue of mental illness in the criminal justice system?
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The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War
February 4, 2008What is still to be learned about the post-Cold War relationship between the U.S. and Russia? We’ll find out this hour with Journalist Pete Earley, whose new book reveals a lot. It’s called “Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War” (Putnam, 2008).
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CRAZY and Mental Health in America
November 8, 2007Is the criminal justice system being used to warehouse the mentally ill? Pete Earley wrote about his son’s incarceration for crimes he might never have committed if doctors hadn’t initially refused to treat him in the 2006 book “CRAZY: A Father’s Search through America’s Mental Health Madness” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006). Earley’s in town to […]
