Health
Vulnerable Inmates Left in Prison as Covid Rages – The New York Times
At a federal compound in Connecticut, inmates in precarious health “are like sitting ducks,” one lawyer said.
On Dec. 9, Rae Haltzman, who is 65 and has high blood pressure, started vomiting but was unable to summon help. She lay down by the locked door of the visiting room with a blanket waiting for someone to come, she wrote in a statement filed with the court. When she spotted a psychologist leaving the building, I banged on the door and asked him to get a medic.
Ms. Haltzman was eventually hospitalized for nine days. After being discharged on Dec. 18, she was placed alone in a locked room that is usually…
