A very interesting and well written book. I would expect to see much more data and evidence used by the author to come to his conclusions. I feel that he was trying to push certain points and opinions without fully backing them up with reliable data.

Hatch wrote an important book that is going to be a tough read for people who are new to a critical view of pharmaceutical companies and for people who don't know much or think much about incarceration in the US. That is part of the problem. For most of us, the business side of pharmaceuticals (and healthcare) and correction
is invisible. It is easy to not know and not care, unless it directly impacts you or your love ones.

For readers who are already interested in the structural issues relating to health care, mental health, incarceration, racism, and the impact of our particular form of capitalism, Hatch is researching an intersection that is important.

The author's painstaking research and attention to detail is obvious in the writing of this book. There were many facts that I only discovered after reading this!

I was really excited to dive into this book and explore all of the ways in which the government and institutions force psychotropic medications upon them. YET, this book fell short.
The author explores several areas: prisons, military, nursing homes, and sex offenders. Yet I feel that the overall depth of the book is lacking.
The prison portion took up the most space in the book, yet was the most disappointing. From the lack of surveys, lack of knowledge, lack of just about everything, it was hard to draw any conclusions from this lack of evidence, yet the author tried HARD to equate an increase in spending in psychotropics to racism.
I wondered if perhaps the author should have went to a county jail, a state prison, etc and do a survey himself, instead of just analyzing the past surveys.
Moving on to the military, again the author tried very, very hard to paint the picture of the government opening up and using psychotropics on unwilling service personnel.
Yet the author admits that the military takes more people who are mentally damaged in some way.
Overall, the book fell flat, the author did NOT have enough data to reach any of his conclusions and the only positive thing is that maybe there will be some accountability in prison pharmacy's.