While serving time in a Wisconsin prison in 2021, Darnell Price watched a golf-ball-size lump on his thigh grow as large as a football. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections granted Darnell Price compassionate release after a doctor diagnosed him with Stage 4 soft-tissue cancer. In a statement, Beth Hardtke, a Corrections Department spokeswoman, said that all prison system doctors must have an unrestricted Wisconsin medical license. Generally, Oshel said, “the people that apply are the people that can’t get jobs elsewhere.”A raft of lawsuitsRecords show that many of the Wisconsin prison doctors with disciplinary histories continued to face scrutiny after their hiring. The Oklahoman revealed in 2016 that more than a third of state prison doctors in Oklahoma had been disciplined at some point in their careers.

Source: New York Times July 02, 2024 15:03 UTC