According to this article, more than 3,000 people die each year of natural causes in US correctional facilities. Of course this is bound to happen with over 7 million people imprisoned in this country and 1/3 of them over 50. This reality has led to a number of hospice programs starting up within correctional facilities. And who better to volunteer at these hospices than prison inmates themselves?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/health/18hospice.html?ref=global-home
Books on hospice : SOC 362.175
Books on prisons/incarceration : SOC 365.973
Showing posts with label prisons. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
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News of note.
source: flickr commonsWapo has an article about the Quest Institutes "Books Behind Bars" program. Apparently a CD-ROM and paper clip halted the entire program. Books Behind Bars donates prisoner-requested books to Virginia Corrections facilities. The active DC based Quixote Center's Books to Prisoners project can be found here.
Nytimes has an op-ed by social sciences favorite Michael Pollan. He's got something to say about health care reform and it makes me hungry.
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