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 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)