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Warning: tranquilizers necessary before reading. Penn State receives 1.27 million grant to study end of life care for prisoners.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Posted on February 3, 2010 4:56 AM Penn State researchers receive money for new prison study By Laura Nichols Email Penn State Collegian Staff Writer Penn State researchers making end-of-life care for prison inmates are the focus of a $1.27 million grant. Researchers are using the National Institute of Nursing Research grant to develop a comprehensive toolkit of tailored resources for end-of-life care in prisons, assistant professor of nursing Susan Loeb wrote in an e-mail. Leaders of the program plan to apply study findings at six different prisons state-wide in an attempt to improve care for inmates reaching the end of their lives, wrote Loeb, the principal investigator for the study. "Since prisons are among the most restrictive, most complex organizations -- prisons are the best context for this study," Loeb wrote...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).