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Article: Revolutionizing prison hospice: the interdisciplinary approach of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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- Corrections Compendium
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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"I'm 34. I've been at Angola for 17 years. I committed murder and will be here for the rest of my life. I hope to get out some day, but I know I won't. I deserve to be punished. Prison has changed me and I've learned so much while incarcerated. I've learned how to be patient and to obey authority. But because of hospice, I've learned the most important lesson: How to love."
This inmate volunteer's poignant statement is a common message heard inside the prison hospice at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) at Angola, an all-male facility. Hospice care allows terminally ill inmates to live their final days in the most comfortable and natural setting possible. ...
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