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CA Prison Hospice Helps Inmates and Care-Givers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CA Prison Hospice Helps Inmates and Care-Givers April 26th, 2010 Inside prison walls, Gary Rubenstein is facing a death sentence, but one not imposed by a judge or jury. He has terminal lung cancer and has stopped treatment, saving the state expensive end-of-life medical care in a futile attempt to keep him alive. ?I said, ?For what? I?m in prison,?? said Rubenstein. ?There?s really no light at the end of my tunnel.? Story reported by KTVU. Rubenstein has spent almost half his 53 years in prison and 16 years served so far this time for his third strike, a conviction for attempted strong arm robbery. The talented pen-and-ink/tattoo artist is spending his last California Medical Facility in Vacaville days in prison at the end of Vacaville?s X-corridor in a hospice, the nation?s first...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).