by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
I was K.T.s neighbor. We’d lived next door to each other for two years amd became friends. K.T. was 62 years old, walked with a cane, but was otherwise healthy. We first thought she had come down with the flu, but her coughing and respiratory distress lingered...
by Editor | Mar 19, 2019 | Inmate Stories
I don’t know anyone who, at one time or another, hasn’t mentioned how things have gotten so high at the store. We are about to have yet another price hike. Even though Keefe Company is under contract and are only supposed to raise prices at the start of...
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 13, 2019 | Inmate Stories, Smoking
Here are 2 inmates with COPD from inhaling second-hand smoke. Both began to get symptoms some years into their incarceration at Perryville. A.G.V: “I am a life long non-smoker. After 10 years incarcerated in Oklahoma, I was transported to Perryville prison....
