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Inmates tout value of hospice care at Maine State Prison
By bangordailynews.com- Abigail Curtis
Published: 06/26/2014

WARREN, Maine — When sisters Lori Doughty and Mary Ann Guenette walked into the conference room at Maine State Prison on Wednesday morning, they were met by a barrage of love.

The women had come for the second day of the annual Maine Hospice Council conference at the prison, but they also were there to say hello to the men they had met in unusual and intense circumstances over the winter.

Their brother, 53-year-old Stephen Gravel, died in January at the prison after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Although his worst fear was to die alone, the Maine State Prison hospice volunteers made sure that he was never left alone at the end.

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