“I Can’t Breathe” and Medical Ethics

by Steven H. Miles, MD In 1986, guards were transporting Mr. Vinson Harris, a Black prisoner, from Mecklenburg County Jail to Butner Penitentiary in Lewisburg Pennsylvania  He was forced to wear a painful hard black box around his wrists. Hands swell with that device—increasing the pain even more. Mr. Harris would not be quiet. That annoyed the guards. When the bus got to the federal prison, they chained his waist into a chair, shackled his legs to the chair and handcuffed his wrist to the chair.…
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