Just Drink Water – by C.A.

Just Drink Water – by C.A.

I have had Crohn’s disease for 6 years before I came to Perryville. Corizon said “it’s cured” even though they gave me no treatment for it. The provider prescribed medication for I.B.S. (totally different disease than Crohn’s) and that...

Imprisoning America’s Mentally Ill

by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News February, 2019, page 22 Since the 1962 publication of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a mirror image of the best-selling novel’s plot has played out in U.S. prisons. Author Ken Kasey wrote a work of fiction about a...

Aging Prison Population Finds Parole Elusive

by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News January, 2019, According to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Justice, about 11% of the state and federal prison population in 2016 was over age 55. Of those prisoners, numbering roughly 160,000,...