From The Marshal Project:
Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure.
At 59, Martha Perez also had diabetes and congestive heart failure. She had been in various federal prisons since 2005 on money laundering and drug convictions. In 2018, the Bureau of Prisons sent her to the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, the country’s only federal medical prison for women.
The bureau houses some of the sickest women at Carswell, and it’s the only federal women’s prison with in-patient dialysis — a critical, life-sustaining treatment for people with kidney failure.
But in court documents she filed pleading for release, Perez described her worsening health and her fear of dying at Carswell. In May 2022, another incarcerated person had to help her write a final request because of her poor vision. Just over a year later, Perez died in a Fort Worth hospital. No family was with her. Contiue reading >>>
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