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  • The Marshall Project

    For My Incarcerated Clients, There Is No Winning

    “What he really needed, a lawyer couldn’t give him.”
    by Peter Borenstein Oct 18, 2019 5 minutes

    Tears were streaming down the man’s face, and the interview room in which we’d been sitting across from each other didn’t have any tissues.

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    “They wouldn’t give me clean bandages for my hand! I was just walking around with this infected, bloody rag, begging them to help! They just laughed at me! Shouldn’t they pay for that? Shouldn’t I get something for that?”

    Our conversation was taking place inside a California penitentiary, with its endless fences topped with barbed wire and guards with rifles perched atop their towers.

    This man was a prisoner and had sent me, a lawyer who does civil lawsuits, a heartbreaking letter that said he had been ignored while an injury

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