by Editor | Mar 19, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
“I have scaly skin lesions on my face for over a year, and could not talk my “provider” into a dermatology referral. As luck would have it, a real MD walked by as I was in my wheelchair and I asked him to tale a look at my face. He said it looks like...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
I went to the hospital for heart failure. Just before I was discharged, I had to go to the bathroom. I’m 72 years old, and they had me shackled with a belly chain, hand cuffs, and feet cuffed. When the female guard started to help me up, she let go too soon and...
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...
