According to Carol McAdoo, a coordinating consultant with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, over 3,000 inmates die each year in prison. More than 75 state and federal prisons now have hospice programs where inmates are trained to give compassionate care to the dying.
Read the full article by Rick Jervis of USA Today at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-29-prison-hospices_N.htm
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