My 26 year-old sister, Erin Finley, died from asthma at the state prison at Muncy in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Her death was caused by medical neglect. To us, her family, she was murdered! She was denied essential asthma medication. She suffered a slow torturously agonizing death struggling to get her breath. It took six and a half hours of gasping before she finally succumbed! Prison staff watched her suffer. To us, her family, the doctor, nurses and guards who knew that she was hopelessly struggling to breathe are murderers. In 2002, no one who's supposedly under medical care should die from asthma! They ruined our family. Erin may have been a drug addict, but she never hurt anyone except herself. She was a wonderful sister, aunt, godmother and daughter. Our family will suffer without her forever. As a result of a wrongful death suit, the victim's family was awarded over $2,100,000.00 from the Department of Imprisonment and Wexford, the corporation which profited from neglecting prisoners' medical needs. No amount of money could compensate for the loss of the woman. The best we can hope for is that the prisons will be a little less callous in the future. The imprisonment industry doesn't care about people, but money is sure important to them!