Given the present, ongoing asbestos manufacturing and product liability legal settlement, in which the courts and government have played such a prominent role, it would be difficult to believe that the government would not be perfectly aware of the health hazards of asbestos.
Despite this, Lewisburg federal penitentiary is virtually loaded with asbestos - years after a major government effort to remove asbestos from public buildings. The level of asbestos exposure that I personally witnessed at Lewisburg is, in my opinion, actually frightening.
In my opinion an immediate and massive effort is needed to determine the extent of asbestos exposure that is right now occurring at Lewisburg and, an equivalent effort, in my opinion, should be initiated to ascertain exactly how many inmates and staff have died or acquired illnesses from this exposure over the years. And there is no doubt in my mind that deaths and illnesses have occurred.
A prisoner
Petersburg, Virginia
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