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Medical Neglect Is the Norm in Women's Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Medical Neglect Is the Norm in Women's Prisons By Betty Brink, Ms. Magazine. Posted October 20, 2008. Women inmates die and suffer from medical neglect in a prison system that is much more of a threat to them than they are to anyone else. My name is Janice Pugh. I was released from FMC Carswell [the only federal prison facility in the U.S. that includes a hospital for inmates] on January 10, 2000. ... The reason for me being at Carswell was for medical treatment. I have a history of lung cancer. ... The last six months I was coughing up blood, and a lot of it. ... There was sputum tests done and a test where they put a scope down your nose. Well, I received NO results from these tests. ... [Pugh went home to Alabama after her release; she had served 18 months for drug possession...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).