Hospice care is coming!
The note in my mail simply said: We did it! Thank you! I knew exactly what Sybil was talking about. She’s an inmate at WHV, Michigan’s only state prison for women based in Ypsilanti, and she was forwarding to me a memo that had been circulated among the inmates. The printed message was seeking volunteers for a new Hospice Program being developed at that facility. What a milestone! The hospice-care-for-prisoners concept goes back a long way. Over the past 15 years my heart has been broken, time after time, over the conditions in which many of our prisoners spend their final days and hours. I’m especially sensitive to all of this because my wife Marcia, a specially-trained hospice nurse, spent more than a decade in a local hospice program. So, HFP began the long journey of trying to get some kind of hospice-type care into our state prison system. 2013 Following a series of meetings with representatives of Hospice of Michigan, we orchestrated a meeting with Mi