Inmate in hopsital wants to go home to die  10:30 AM, Aug 26,
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Rapids - Relatives of convicted killer Carla Ringleka are asking
Governor Jennifer Granholm to use her power and set the inmate
free so she can go home to die in Montcalm County. "Carla is a
sweet, wonderfully natured person," says Joan Baynton,
Ringleka's aunt. Carla Ringleka, 58, is serving a 20 year
sentence for conspiring with her boyfriend to murder her husband
in 1999. Now, less than 7 years into the sentence, doctors say
she is dying of cancer. Her aunt reads aloud from a letter
written by the inmate's physician, Dr. Elaina Gartner. "The
liver disease has recently progressed. I anticipate she will not
live much longer and will pass away within the next days to
weeks." Ringleka is now gravely ill in a Detroit hospital.
Relatives admit it may be too late for her to come home before
she dies. "It could be too late," says Baynton. "But she could
be transported by ambulance or somethin