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Poisoned Lives

By AAN Staff
october 21, 2002  09:57 am
Poisoned Lives
An alleged cover-up of environmental hazards at the Texas Bureau of Prisons' Federal Medical Center for Women has excruciating consequences for a handful of workers. Fort Worth Weekly's Betty Brink reports that maintenance employees were exposed to high doses of lead while remodeling an unused room into a laundry. The old room still had cabinets lined with inch-thick slabs of lead from its previous use: nuclear medicine. Now two of the workers are critically ill, three workers and one inmate have sued in federal court, and the prison is saying it did nothing wrong.
View full article at Fort Worth Weekly