Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I met Ralph Marcus in June 2024 at California Medical Facility, he was sitting in his wheelchair in the ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On a compound with almost 1,300 women, we hear this command often because of perpetual staff shortages. But that ...