Janice Pang’s Reviews > Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond > Status Update

"The mentally ill represent approximately 20 percent of the nation's state prison population. American state prisons currently hold ten times more mentally ill citizens than the country's mental institutions."

"High levels of unemployment, lack of social resources, and concentrated areas of low income are all root causes of both high crime and disorder. As sub, crime would be more effectively redressed by investing economically in neighborhoods rather than targeting them for heightened arrests."

"From the distance of our day it appears as though [Pruitt-Igoe] never had a chance, for the tragic flaw here was in the conception: an initiative born not out of compassion but out of a penitentiary mentality that sought to hide the city's struggling peoples, to punish them for getting in the way of progress, and to equate their poverty with little more than degeneracy."