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Medical Care Chilling At Purdy
Loaded on May 15, 1991
by TE L
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1991, page 9
The Clinic had me pretty stressed out the last couple of days. My arm, where the stitches were, are starting to form blisters, and to me that is not normal. My belief is that it should be healing - not blistering and I've never known blistering to be part of …
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect.
Location:
Washington.
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- GRAPO Hungerstrike Ends
- Still Stuck in the U.S.A.
- Prison/Community Alliance Update, by Martin Roth
- War Repression, by Laura Whitehorn
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
- Local Deities, A Book Review, by Ed Mead
- News from Dwight Womens' Prison, by F L
- The Black Panthers Are Back, by Paul Wright
- "Rehabilitation" Hoax Unveiled at ISRB Meeting, by Dan Pens
- DOC "Taxes" Oklahoma Prisoners, by Jeff Lea
- Update of Canadian Women Prisoners, by Paul Wright
- Why Do We Still Have a Parole Board?, by Ed Mead
- Exposure to Secondary Smoke Found Unlawful
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- Pig Park, by N R
- Penitentiary Overcrowded
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