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Another Death in a Wisconsin Prison
Loaded on April 15, 2004
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2004, page 10
"Unremarkable." That's what prison nurse Jolinda Waterman called Donnie Powe's condition when she relegated him to an observation cell. Guards perfunctorily recorded his declining health right up until he died, face down on the floor of his 6 by 8 foot tomb in Wisconsin Secure Program Facility (WSPF) aka Supermax. ...
Filed under:
Prison Health Services,
Cardiovascular,
Staffing,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Wisconsin.
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