Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime… — Pete Earley Copy Share
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens… — Pete Earley Copy Share
“On February 1, 1906, Leavenworth received its first inmate, John Grindstone, a Native American convicted of murder. He was paroled a few years later,… — Pete Earley Copy Share
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has… — Pete Earley Copy Share
Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. — Pete Earley Copy Share
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of… — Pete Earley Copy Share
I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights.… — Pete Earley Copy Share
“We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and a judge… — Pete Earley Copy Share
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. — Pete Earley Copy Share
There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were… — Pete Earley Copy Share
Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are… — Pete Earley Copy Share
