While California's Prison Realignment initiative is extremely political along with being both highly praised and broadly contested, it still is a step in the right direction toward addressing overcrowding and prisoner access to proper medical care in state prisons across the globe.
In preparation for the upcoming Fall AAJ conference session, I decided to take a closer look at prisoner Marciano Plata's testimony in Brown v. Plata and created a graphic timeline that documents 30 of the hundreds of times that he was denied proper medical care over the course of several years for the same injury in state prison.
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Learn more about this and so much more at the Fall 2015 AAJ Session:
Prison Realignment and Blue Skies: If Architects Ruled the World. Defining and Challenging the Status Quo
Thursday 11-19-15 8:00am-9:30am
Speakers:
Stephen Carter, AICP Lorenzo Lopez, AIA
John MacAllister, Assoc. AIA Francis Pitts, FAIA
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