Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Montross, Christine
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Montross, Christine

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

"A haunting and harrowing indictment . . . [a] significant achievement." --The New York Times Book Review...
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Author: Christine Montross
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Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Montross, Christine

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

$42.91
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Montross, Christine

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

$42.91
Author: Christine Montross
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"A haunting and harrowing indictment . . . [a] significant achievement." --The New York Times Book Review

L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist * New York Times Book Review Paperback Row * Time Best New Books July 2020

Waiting for an Echo 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.

Dr. 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.

Our 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.


Author: Christine Montross
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/20/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780143110668

About the Author
Dr. Christine Montross, 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 Body of Work and Falling into the Fire.
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