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Prison reform is making life inside prison worse, not betterIn 1978, an inmate stapled my ear back together. It had been almost torn off by a slamming cell door in the Texas prison where we were both incarcerated, and by stapled, I mean he used one of the $4 devices you get at Office Depot. Administered by untrained inmates and overseen by guards, this was basic medical care in Texas prisons before 1980, when Judge William Wayne Justice finally ruled in Ruiz v. Estelle that Texas prison health care violated the 8th Amendment.
Updated July 21, 20224 min read