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Dying Inside: Lifers, the Dying, and California's Correctional Paradigm

By Jonathan Simor

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Before the hospice program started by prison chaplain Lorie Adolff, dying prisoners in California's state prison in San Luis Obsipo (California Mens Colony) just expired alone in their cells, with prison nurses looking in periodically until their vital signs ceased. Her project, Supportive Care Services, trains other prisoners, most of them lifers, to sit with and comfort dying prisoners. The hospice, featured this morning on KQED's California Report (listen to it here), sounds deeply moving and likely a powerful healing experience for everyone involved. I have had the privilege of being at the bedside of the dying myself (my father) and I have no doubt that that small space is one of freedom and transcendence even in the midst of prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 20, 2014 (boomark / email).