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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 10 - March 1999

< Dedication
 
< A Visit to a Doctor
 
< The Privilege of Being Sick in the California Department of Corrections
 
< Health care for California's Women Prisoners
 
< Resistant Spirit - a tribute to political prisoner Marilyn Buck
 
< STOP THE ATTACKS ON HIV+ WOMEN AT CHOWCHILLA!!
 
< Courage
 
< Amnesty International Condemns Treatment of Women Prisoners in the USA
 
< Caravan for Prisoners' Human Rights
 
< Justice Overruled - Theresa Cruz's Conviction Upheld
 
< In Memoriam to Tina Balagno
 
< News Briefs
 
       

Dedication

Sherrie Chapman has been in prison at California Institution for Women since 1981. Sherrie found lumps in both of her breasts in 1985 and tried to get a medical diagnosis for nine years. Since 1995, she has had two radical mastectomies and had a hysterectomy. During that time he has had to beg for pain medication. She is currently receiving only Tylenol for pain.
Amnesty International is focusing on Sherrie's case because she has received such exteremely poor medical care. We know that women prisoners are constantly being mistreated, misdiagnosed and ignored. Sherrie's situation is not unique. Another woman prisoner, Tina Balagno, died in Febrary 1999, one week after receiving compassionate release, as a result of bone cancer which was left untreated until it had metastacized to her breasts, spine and brain.
Sherrie, for your courage, determination and refusal to accept second-class medical care, we dedcate this issue of Fire Inside to you.

Last updated January 6, 2004 07:53 AM


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