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Cancer in Prison: A Death Sentence?

All around us, authorities work to steal our life force. I won’t let them take it in the time I have left.

By Harlow Scott

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How did my prison doctor miss a tumor the size of a doll’s head on my ultrasound? Why did I get cancer? I had been imprisoned at Perryville in Goodyear, Arizona, for 14 years — most of which were spent as a tutor, helping hundreds of women obtain their GED. So why me? It turns out I was asking all the wrong questions back then, before my colon cancer spread. When you are a cancer…

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