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A Cancer Grows
Cooper, Cynthia | May 6, 2002 issue

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The article focuses on the substandard medical treatment given to women prisoners in the United States. Women in prisons suffer mainly from the common killers being breast, ovarian and cervical cancer. It seems a web of social, medical, legal and political circumstances conspire against the medical care of women inmates. In most cases doctors are ill trained and overburdened. Moreover the federal government refuses Medicaid payments for prisoners, placing the entire burden on states. Advocates want to see women prisoners treated by the standards of acceptable medical care in the outside community.

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WOMEN prisoners -- Medical care; PRISONERS -- United States; BREAST -- Cancer; CERVIX uteri -- Cancer; MEDICAID; UNITED States
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