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| Hospice care more in focus with Maine's aging prison population |
| By www.kjonline.com - David Hench dhench@mainetoday.com |
| Published: 09/11/2012 |
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Many of the elderly inmates in the Maine State Prison have done evil things, crimes that earned them a lifetime behind bars, but that doesn't mean they should die without comfort or companionship, says Anne Haskell. "They're still human beings," said Haskell, a Democratic state representative from Portland who became familiar with hospice care 20 years ago, when her first husband died of lung cancer. "I know there are people who say, 'Who cares? Look what they did in society.' And they did some horrible, heinous things," said Haskell, a member of the Legislature's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. "They are still our responsibility. I don't want to be part of the society that says you have to have a painful, awful death because of what you did." The state prison is in its third year of a program that allows prisoners who are trained in hospice care to tend to terminally ill prisoners near the end of their lives. Read More. |
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