Quote of the Day | June 4, 2019

“Basically, they belittled him and suggested he was malingering or faking it. In one case they gave him Pepto-Bismol. It was a whole assortment of grossly inadequate care.”

-Paul DeMuro, an attorney for the mother of Joshua England, a 21-year-old who died in an Oklahoma prison after being denied treatment for a ruptured appendix for 7 days [The Frontier]

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Quote of the Day | June 4, 2018

“For too long, Oklahomans with disabilities have been denied easy access to savings and investment opportunities, and that stops today.”

-Oklahoma State Treasurer Ken Miller, speaking about the state’s new STABLE accounts where Oklahomans with disabilities can save and invest without risk of losing their SSI benefit. [NewsOK]

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