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| Skin Cancer Protection Is An Issue For Prisoner |
| By scpr.org |
| Published: 08/26/2010 |
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It sounds like a small thing to a free person, but merely getting a hat and the permission to wear it to protect his scalp from recurring skin cancer is an ongoing issue for Jon Andreas, who transferred to Avenal State Prison in March 2009. Andreas shared his medical journal, including the struggle to get and wear a hat outdoors. He went for more than a month without head protection, and when he got his wide-brimmed straw hat he was not allowed to wear it in an area of the prison yard where he had to wait 45 minutes per day in the sun. It took until May 1 for him to get permission to wear it in all outdoor areas. The hat got crushed twice while hanging on a hook, as required, during visiting hours in late 2009. By April of this year, it was falling to pieces, he wrote. He got a new hat in May, although his hat permit — known as a chrono — had expired. “He has now been two months begging again for a chrono,” wrote his mother Kay Pech, of Cerritos. “Without the chrono he doesn't have permission to wear a hat. Meanwhile, he has not been seen by a competent dermatologist except via [a remote video exam called] Telemed. He has had a festering wound on the top of his head for more than a year now. Read More. |
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