How a Maryland prisoner’s 15-month quest for eye surgery ended in blindness
Appleby-El told a nurse at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland that his retina was detached, and he needed to be seen by an ophthalmologist. It was, he said, a medical emergency. But prison medical staff did not immediately treat it like one....
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