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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 33 - Summer 2006

< Dedication
 
< It's Your Health: The New Prison Scourge
 
< Legal Corner: Custody interference in healthcare
 
< The Coalition for Accountable Healthcare
 
< A letter to Receiver, Robert Sillen
 
< Editorial: Cuidado a Salud en Prision Peor que Nunca
 
< Editorial: Prison Health Care Worse Than Ever
 
< Women Prisoners Oppose the Governor’s Master Plan
 
< It’s All About Us: Jail Health and Re-entry
 
< To Those I left Behind
 
< Get on the bus
 
< New tools of torture
 
< Torture in Mexican Prison
 
< Tortura en la prision de Mexico
 
< From Martha Fernandez’ friends to her family
 
< CCWP Founding Member Diana Block Honored
 
< Free reading material
 
< Katrina Amnesty
 
< The Fire Inside 10th Anniversary Event Coming Nov. 5
 
< Calling All Women Inside
 
< Parole Beat
 
< For Annie Castiglione
 
< Are You Aware of Your Rights If You Are Pregnant?
 
< CCWP Collaborates with Mills College
 
       

Dedication

Norrita Jeanette Wynder (Baby Girl) died on February 7, 2006 as a result of a preventable and treatable asthma attack. She was 28 years old. The guards on her unit helped trigger an attack when they upset her by denying her a phone call for which she was signed up. They made the attack fatal by refusing to let her get help once the attack was triggered.

While several individual guards are complicit in her needless and untimely death, it indicts the whole prison system. We hold the prison and the prison system responsible for the prevailing attitude that prisoners are "faking" any time they report their health issues.

We dedicate this issue of The Fire Inside to Norrita Wynder, her death throws a spotlight on the non-delivery of health care in prison.

Last updated March 14, 2007 10:37 PM


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