The prison inmate
are humans just like you and I. Some are good people and some are
bad people. Many are in prisons because of drugs (selling, using, stealing to get money for drugs, murder while committing a
robbery, murder during a drug buy that went bad.) If these people were
not on drugs would they be in prison? Probably not.
Is the fact of their addiction an excuse for their crime? No.
Many of them find themselves in prison and realize that they are there because
of their drug addiction. Many recover from their addiction. Many
have Hepatitis C and AIDS from their drug use. Hepatitis C is also spread
in the prison system because of unsanitary conditions.
As in the communities outside the walls the inmates inside the walls are
subject to disease. Cancer and other life threatening diseases are also
found in prison. Any disease in prison can become life threatening
because of medical neglect. There are doctors who are not licensed to
practice medicine, incompetent doctors who can
not work elsewhere. There are also nursed who never heard of TLC or think
it means Treat Like Crap. Then you have
prisoners as aids who in some cases are the only
ones who have any competance and in other cases are as bad as the others.
Then comes the guards who do not give a shit.
Hepititas, AIDS and other deseases go untreated. Infections are caused by
neglect. Prisoners in extreme pain are not given pain pills. The
more I see the more I wonder what country I am in and what century this is.
The conditions in many if not most prisons are pre midevil
conditions.
Are the majority of people in this country asleep? Are our leaders
asleep? I was asleep but when I got involved in this web site I woke up.
What I have found since the middle of June, 2002 has made me sick.
I blame the Governors for the abuse because they have to know if they do
not they are incompetant. It is not hidden. All you have to
do is go to the search engines and look up prisons, abuse, innocent and death
and most of what I have in this website will be there.
© Copyright 2002 Lee W. Gaylord
Neglected
on this site:
Rusty Rhoton needs medical
care and his son
Waymon M. Berry III
Raymond Geddie
Dale Cain
James Blau - A case of
medical neglect and malpractice
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Record
Murder Incorporated:
Profits from Privatized Prison Health Care
Problems
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Correctional Medical Services Home Page
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