by Editor | Mar 6, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
I have had Crohn’s disease for 6 years before I came to Perryville. Corizon said “it’s cured” even though they gave me no treatment for it. The provider prescribed medication for I.B.S. (totally different disease than Crohn’s) and that...
by Editor | Feb 27, 2019 | Health
by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News February, 2019, page 22 Since the 1962 publication of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a mirror image of the best-selling novel’s plot has played out in U.S. prisons. Author Ken Kasey wrote a work of fiction about a...
by Editor | Jan 23, 2019 | Health
You may have met IM 1997 and her C.O.P.D. story here on the Smoking page, but this is what happened to her in regards to cancer. She discovered a lump in her upper-left breast in 2008. The mammogram did not show it because the lump was too far above the scope of the...
by Editor | Jan 9, 2019 | Health, News
This is not an isolated case of elder abuse at the women’s prison. Sgt. G admitted to an inmate that cases of inmate elder abuse are too common here. The latest example was a 64 year old lady who uses a cane. Her 20 year old room mate didn’t want to room...
by Editor | Jan 9, 2019 | Health
Dept. of Corrections expects us to clean our room but does not provide the necessary means to do so. We wash our floors with Suave shampoo. Shampoo is not going to kill the stomach flu or worse bacteria such as Hep C. We used to get cleaner that was blue like window...
by Editor | Jan 9, 2019 | Health
We are in our 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Here is a picture of “pill call” at 9:30 am, 365 days a year, where we line up in front of Medical. Everyone in this sketch is a first-time “offender.” What are we thinking? That we are...
