Lack of adequate health care is a death sentence for Arizona inmates

prison healthBy Elizabeth Stuart | Phoenix New Times

Jorge Rios wasn’t thinking straight when he got the news.

The mother of his 15-year-old son, the woman he’d loved since high school, had been transferred to the hospital from Arizona’s Perryville Prison, where she was nine months into a two-year sentence for drug possession.

It was cervical cancer.

Jorge, at 35 an athletically built man with a shaved head and a prickly goatee, didn’t know the name of the medical facility, what had happened to prompt the abrupt move, how she was holding up — anything.

He just knew he needed to see Nishma Kanabar. Immediately.

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