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 Submitted by Lyndsey Clark. I pledge…
+.	Jeff Robinson is unable to fill his prescription of two different doses of Zyprexa he needs (10 mg and ½ of 5 mg) to make the precise 12.5 mg he needs to not make him anxious or loopy (346). Instead, he gets prescribed a single 15 mg dose to save costs for Medicaid. How is this more efficient and cost saving when it’s not obvious how to cut a 15 mg pill into a 12.5 mg pill? Presumably there are many other people that face this predicament.
+.	Earley cites a Florida official saying that Tom Mullen’s Passageway program is “a model of the state, maybe even the nation…it’s one of the few programs that actually works” (320). If that’s the case, why hasn’t it been implemented more widely as Earley argues that it should be?
+Submitted by Chris O'Neill
+.) Do you think that there are any downsides within the claim of mental disorders being caused by faulty brain chemistry? (69)
+.) Earley explains how the approach to "treating" mental health concerns is a continuous cycle of neglect, abuse, greed, and waste; a continuous circle. Do you think, if possible, there could be a way to solve this epidemic (besides the obvious)?
+Submitted by Erica Banks. I pledge.
+) On page 242, one officer justifies their abuse of the mentally ill inmates on the ninth floor as a result of lack of resources. Do you think that a lack of resources justifies their abuse? Or should they find other means of reprimanding the inmates?
+) Continuing off the above question, though they say they have a lack of resources, they are still able to gain access to large amounts of pepper spray that they can "gas" patients out with. Does this show that all of their resources for the ninth floor are inherently dangerous/abusive?
+) The female officer on page 244 also mentions how no one likes working the ninth floor because those people did not choose to lose their minds like how some other inmates "chose" to commit crimes. Do you think that fear from the officers of the possibility of losing their own minds impacts their treatment of the mentally ill inmates?
+Submitted by Mallory Karnei (I pledge...)
+The general argument behind Earley's book is that mental illness is currently being treated by prisons and other punitive facilities a disproportionate amount of the time. Whether intentional or not, Earley frames this as a problem somewhat unique to the early 2000s. As historians, we know this isn't exactly true, and that the prison industrial complex has a history spanning back decades. Would you say this book truly could have been written anytime from the 1990's to today?
+. Do you believe "Crazy" deserved the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction? (I think he was a finalist)