Health Focus
A prisoner serving as a palliative aide says he spends his time with the patients talking, studying the Bible, writing letters, playing chess, watching television and making sandwiches and coffee.
“From a moral and a kindness issue, the idea of being very sick in a corrections environment, being terminally ill in a corrections environment and dying in a corrections environment has got to be a very difficult situation,” said Dr. Carl Koenigsmann, deputy commissioner and chief medical officer of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the US. Read more:
Inmates help care for sick, dying prisoners