What It’s Like Watching My Friends Die in Prison
Sitting with death as a hospice worker in a maximum-security prison.
I work in hospice at a maximum-security prison. The question I get the most is, “How can you do that?” Honestly, it’s not easy. We are literally sitting with death.
Hospice is a program that we sign up for, where we sit with another prisoner while he dies. That’s not all we do; there’s far more to it than that. But for now, that’s what I’ll say. W
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