From Prison Journal Project:
In 2021, writer Dorothy Maraglino’s friend Lynette Demello felt a pain in her breast so sharp that she rocked back and forth. When she asked guards to call medical staff, they told her health emergencies were for people who couldn’t breathe. Demello was later diagnosed with breast cancer.
Ralph Marcus, who died in California last year from spindle cell carcinoma, told a PJP editor that an outside doctor instructed him to come back for a necessary surgery. “But I never got to go back,” Marcus said. “I couldn’t follow up.”
Anthony Triplett, one of over 50 contributors who shared stories with Prison Journalism Project about cancer in prison, knows multiple incarcerated people with the disease. Continue reading >>>
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