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A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
Putnam
April 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0399153136
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over
thirty years,
and the author of several award-winning-even bestselling-
nonfiction
books about crime and punishment and society. Yet he'd
always been on
the outside looking in. He had no idea what it was like to
be on the
inside looking out until his son, Mike, was declared
mentally ill, and
Earley was thrown headlong into the maze of contradictions,
disparities, and catch-22s that is America's mental health
system.
The more Earley dug, the more he uncovered
the bigger picture: Our nation's prisons have become our
new mental hospitals. Crazy
tells two stories. The first is his son's. The second
describes what
Earley learned during a yearlong investigation inside the
Miami-Dade
County jail, where he was given complete, unrestricted
access. There,
and in the surrounding community, he shadowed inmates and
patients;
interviewed correctional officers, public defenders,
prosecutors,
judges, mental-health professionals, and the police; talked
with
parents, siblings, and spouses; consulted historians, civil
rights
lawyers, and legislators.
The result is both a
remarkable
piece of investigative journalism, and a wake-up call-a
portrait that
could serve as a snapshot of any community in America
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