For My Incarcerated Clients, There Is No Winning
Tears were streaming down the man’s face, and the interview room in which we’d been sitting across from each other didn’t have any tissues.
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“They wouldn’t give me clean bandages for my hand! I was just walking around with this infected, bloody rag, begging them to help! They just laughed at me! Shouldn’t they pay for that? Shouldn’t I get something for that?”
Our conversation was taking place inside a California penitentiary, with its endless fences topped with barbed wire and guards with rifles perched atop their towers.
This man was a prisoner and had sent me, a lawyer who does civil lawsuits, a heartbreaking letter that said he had been ignored while an injury
