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“At the end of the day, I didn’t even recognize my own child,” said Izora Clark, whose daughter Krystal has become a focal point of demands for reform at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Michigan’s only women’s prison.

Clark, along with Krystal’s daughter and grandchildren, joined advocates and family members of other women incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley outside the Michigan State Capitol and Michigan Department of Corrections headquarters on Friday afternoon to demand change for their loved ones.

Izora Clark said her daughter has mold in her hair and her ears, allegations also raised by Krystal Clark’s attorneys in an emergency motion to have her removed from the prison, citing what they described as her medical deterioration from toxic mold exposure. Krystal Clark was transferred to Duane Waters Health Center in Jackson after the motion was filed.

At a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing in February, state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) told Krystal’s story as well, stating that along with visible mold growing in her ears, she has developed other health issues, including a facial droop and severe swelling in her arms, while incarcerated.

Michigan Department of Corrections spokesperson Jennie Riehle said that Clark’s attorneys’ allegations “are not supported by the medical evidence or facts known to the department. Ms. Clark is not experiencing any emergent medical condition that warrants transfer from the facility.”

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