Ferdinand Dix
was given six years in Arizona's state prisons for drug crimes and
forgery, but he suffered and died horribly from cancer over the course
of his first two years behind bars. He died on Valentine's Day of last
year. His mother narrates his suffering most poignantly in her lawsuit
against the state of Arizona and ADC Director Charles Ryan for gross
neglect...I'm only including the pertinent excerpts.
Community resource for those monitoring abuses of prisoners across the criminal justice system, and for those subject to or surviving state violence, neglect and abuse.