The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image