Police Are Celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness With Some Astonishingly Tone-Deaf Results

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Pink handcuffs. Police in Greenfield, Massachusetts will observe National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing pins that say “ARREST BREAST CANCER – UNLOCK THE CURE.” Some officers plan to go even further to spread awareness by using pink handcuffs to arrest people.

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Former inmate and breast cancer survivor Sue Ellen Allen is outspoken about how women with cancer are treated behind bars. Diagnosed six months before entering prison, Allen had to fight for basic treatment at every turn even as the cancer sapped her strength. The jail delayed her chemotherapy, guards accused her of making up her medical needs, and she watched her friend die from cancer gone untreated.

Allen was lucky to survive. At a prison in Georgia, Paula Cooper underwent a mastectomy and was returned to her cell still bleeding. She died five months later, still bleeding.

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month last year, Allen recounted how she was shackled in a freezing ward full of cockroaches for hours, waiting to be transported to the hospital for her mastectomy. “This is the way all women experience breast cancer in prison. There is no comfort or solace,” she writes. “They go alone, they suffer alone, they return to their prison alone.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/08/3710046/pinkwashing-police-breast-cancer/

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