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Davis,
Legislators, Voters have blood on their hands (english)
by B. Cayenne Bird 10:07pm Thu Jan 11
'01 |
| address: P.O. Box 22765, Sacramento, Ca. 95822 rightor1@aol.com
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medical crisis in California resulted in 39
deaths Nov 1 through Dec 12, six of those were at
Chowchilla's C.C.W.F. Davis,
Legislators, Voters
have blood on their hands...
by B.
Cayenne Bird, Director
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/2398/home.html
Stephanie Hardie, a 33-year-old Pomona mother of two,
sent to prison for overdrawing her own checking account is
finally free from the talons of the California Criminal
Justice System. She's dead.
Did this sudden and
senseless death really benefit or protect the citizens of
California ? The heartbreaking answer could only be "no."
Hardie had complained of chest pains and sought help
at the prison medical clinic three times in the two weeks
preceding her death on DEC 9. The "clinic" at California
Correctional Facility for Women at Chowchilla (CCWF) is
classified as a Skilled Nursing Facility where six young
inmates died between Nov 1 and Dec. 12. Hardie was the fifth.
Any barely trained medical professional would have
suspected the heart as the problem. Normally, an EKG and a
chest x-ray would be ordered for chest pains and the patient
hospitalized until the results were analyzed.
Instead
Hardie was given a "breathing treatment" and offered
Pepto-Bismol and Motrin. She was asked for a $5 Co-payment and
turned away from proper diagnosis TWICE by MTA's, a hybrid
guard-nurse combination which is equivalent to a Licensed
Vocational Nurse with a nightstick. The physician did not
order these basic tests even with a familial history of heart
disease. Why not?
The answer is most likely to save
money, which is barely available for the health and dental
care of California's 160,000 inmates.
Eye witnesses
tell a gruesome tale of how they all screamed for help for
about seven minutes to summon a guard while Hardie lay
bleeding profusely. One of her cellmates gave CPR. Finally,
two guards opened the door, took one look at Stephanie and
instead of summoning help by radio, ran away and left her!
Frightened cellmates kept the CPR in progress, blood
and all. It was 15-20 minutes before the guards returned to
load her into a van WITH NO EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT. She was
transported to what they term a "prison medical clinic." Only
two of the State's prison hospitals are licensed according to
a State Auditor's Report January 2000 on Managed Care. These
clinics do not meet regular hospital standards.
No one
ever saw a defibrillator, a shock device key to treating heart
attacks and so common that almost every airplane has one on
board. If C.C.W.F. even owns one of these basic pieces of
emergency equipment it was never used on Hardie. On the
weekends, no doctors are present to handle problems of 3200
women, the size of a small city.
An ambulance would
only be called if the inmates could afford to pay for it and
few of them could at salaries of 18 cents or less an hour. We
have reports of ambulances arriving in one to two hours at
most prisons because they are remotely located. Few take issue
with the shoddy emergency response methods.
Hardie's
relatively minor offenses resulted in capital punishment for
her and a lifetime of hurt for her surviving mother Diane
Hardie-Rios, a juvenile probations officer in Pomona. I
question what she was doing in prison in the first place.
Her grandmother feels she was a victim of vindictive
sentencing because she cried out during her trial that would
separate her for ten years from her children who were then 8
and 10 years old. She had five years of her sentence left.
Through all the pain of Stephanie's sudden and
suspicious death, her mother and members of the UNION had to
literally fight for the release of her body. We notified
several senators, acting CDC Director Steve Cambra, Det.
Metcalf of the Madera County Coroner's Office, 31 news
agencies to name a few that we wanted the evidence preserved
and an independent autopsy performed at 8 a.m. Monday morning.
But Det. Metcalf steamrollered us all embalming her
body and washing her hair before we could send in an
independent pathologist. Metcalf knew the family's wishes but
he ignored everyone. After embalming, the autopsy was
adversely affected and a toxicology report was impossible for
anyone to get.
Our lack of funds magnified the
problem, and this working mother just trying to bury her
daughter went through a living hell for 13 days, looking for a
lawyer, facing large and sudden expenses.
We are all
aghast at the sequence of events, at the callousness of the
public and officials to help the families of all the dead
inmates. This holocaust is worse than the death toll of any
riot. Three more have died since Hardie, seventeen so far this
year.
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On the same day that Hardie
died, Jack Kryder, a visitor on his way out of C.C.W.F. fell
onto the grass. Another visitor pleaded with the guard that he
could administer CPR to Kryder until help arrived. But the
untrained guard forced everyone back into the visiting room
according to witnesses.
Horrified men, women and
children who were out for a pleasant Saturday visit watched
Jack Kryder twitch and writhe with no help for a full 38
minutes - too late to save his life. Imagine the torment of
the good-byes said that day when families saw the vivid
reality of the prison's lack of emergency medical services.
The correlation between a civilian visitor and an
inmate receiving no emergency treatment and dying on the same
day ought to be recognized. Both instances were witnessed by
many -some regular citizens and guards, not just inmates. At
least this time, the State cannot so easily deny the crisis.
Official records show 39 people dead from Nov 1
through DEC 12 in California's State prisons.
Not all
of these deaths could be construed as suspicious. After
observing the lack of qualified personnel and equipment,
repeatedly hearing the inhumane practices accepted as business
as usual by callous legislators led by Gov. Davis, I can only
conclude that not everything possible was done to relieve pain
or to save these people, even if some did die from natural
causes. This strong statement is based on nearly three years
of handling member complaints on a daily basis. It's a
nightmare. Diagnosis and surgeries IF performed take many
months, even years.
There were six inmates and one
visitor who died Nov 1 through Dec. 12 at Chowchilla alone.
Three more have died since. Does it only matter to media and
officials when deaths are clustered in this manner? Three of
those deaths are under investigation by a medical team sent in
from UC Davis. From what we've witnessed, ALL of the cases
should be thoroughly investigated.
Susann Steinberg,
Director of CDC Healthcare Services has issued 160,000 letters
to inmates advising them to suspect legal and illegal drugs.
How are they supposed to monitor the safety of drugs given to
them by prescription? People in prison are at their bungling
mercy.
Wouldn't the mailer money have been better
spent on teaching guards how to administer CPR or at the very
least acquiring a defibrillator (which may be in a back room
some place because no one can use it). Covering up, making
excuses always seems to be important than remedy. It's time
for some answers and for the people of California to demand a
reduction in the prison population and revision to overly
harsh laws.
At some point, it would have been the
right thing to do to notify the public that the harsh laws had
resulted in too many people in prison, more than can be cared
for within the budget allocated by Davis and the legislators.
Nobody had the guts and stood by quietly while prisoners are
suffering and dying everyday.
Already inmates who
witnessed the death of Hardie are being pressured not to
testify. Correctional Officer London who sent Hardie to the
clinic twice is not showing up for work at the prison. Is she
hiding?
We weren't the only ones alerting the public
to the medical crisis. Senator John Vasconcellos stated at
almost every Senate Public Safety Committee held for the past
four years that people were being released from prisons sicker
than before they were incarcerated, both mentally and
physically. Senators Richard Polanco Vasconcellos and Hayden
proposed many bills trying to put the Correction part of
Corrections into healing programs. Republican legislators beat
most of these down. The medical doctors in CDC Health Care
services pleaded for more budgets to be able to meet basic
needs of a burgeoning prison population.
Gray Davis
vetoed most of these bills and budget requests even though
millions of dollars in lawsuit payouts continually drain the
taxpayers. Lawsuit payouts for prison guard brutality, medical
neglect, and civil rights violations of prisoners are hidden
and spread across several budgets. It appears there are more
than 5000 lawsuits a year, but since Wilson, it is almost
impossible to pry loose the exact figure of settlements.
Pay now or pay later the taxpayers are paying for all
this inhumane, unbearable incompetence. Legislators can't and
won't do the right thing up front because of groups such as
CCPOA and Crime Victims who stop everything to benefit
prisoners, even though healing programs would ultimately lower
crime. Such groups finance election campaigns. Prisoners have
failed to produce a lobby of their own due to ignorance and
poverty. They don't count in Sacramento.
Reporters are
banned from the prisons, the public cannot scrutinize what is
happening right under our noses which is destroying thousands
of families connected to inmates.
Lawyers saw the
injustice of the trial which acquitted the Corcoran guards for
murder, neglect and brutality, although more trials are coming
up. They advise us the juries are mostly all employees of the
human bondage industry. They say the Republicans protect all
the oppressors in court and are whipped before they start in
most cases. Johnny Cochran won't take prison medical neglect
cases, nor will most other lawyers.
The families of
prisoners are also the innocent victims of crime. We must
immediately halt the conveyor belts feeding men and women into
a system which cannot care for them by ending the Three
Strikes Law, Mandatory Minimum Laws, enforcing parole laws,
instituting Prop 36 and release those terminally ill prisoners
and the mentally ill into hospitals.
None of this
inhumanity is a solution to crime and it's a disgrace that no
one should tolerate.
United for No Injustice,
Oppression or Neglect (U.N.I.O.N.) has alerted legislators and
the public to a widespread medical crisis in prisons on a
daily basis since July, 1998. Timeline and actions:
Aug, September, 1998
The UNION families
picketed the Capitol to support Corcoran Senate hearings.
Director B. Cayenne Bird wrote numerous press releases and
appeared on at least 20 television and radio broadcasts
alerting the public of prison guard brutality and medical
neglect.
November - January, 1999
As a result
of UNION's repeated reports of the crisis supporting the work
of Senator John Vasconcellos, Davis created the Office of the
Inspector General and ombudsmen to investigate inmate
complaints.
January 6, 1999
Medical neglect
exposed on statewide television before the Rules Committee.
Senator John Burton appointed a legislative rep to handle
UNION member complaints.
January 2000
Ombudsmen are finally responding to complaints which
have been pending for more than a year. There is some remedy.
State Auditor publishes report on Managed Care which admits
medical problems. http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/since93.html.
June 21, 2000
A five hour meeting is held
between State Officials and the UNION to discuss the medical
crisis. Lack of money and qualified personnel are the reasons
given for medical deficiencies by CDC Medical Healthcare and
other officials.
September 29, 2000
At least
30 articles and letters in other newspapers written by UNION
director B. Cayenne Bird and members frantically appeal for
help with the medical crisis. The speeches, articles,
broadcast were relentless since July, 1998.
September,
2000
Federal lawsuit alleging medical neglect at CCWF
Chowchilla thrown out due to "lack of evidence."
October ll and 12
Senator Polanco invites the
media to hear testimony of medical abuse, neglect and guard
brutality at CCWF Chowchilla and CIF, Frontera.
November 7
CDC Director Cal Terhune
re-retires, no new director is appointed. Acting Director
Steve Cambra tries to fill in
November 1 - Dec. 12
Six inmates and one visitor are dead at CCWF
Chowchilla, 39 are dead statewide.
January 17
Senator Polanco has called for a hearing. Meanwhile
three other inmates have died at Chowchilla
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/2398/home.html
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Coffey had a heart attack with no
hospitalization, no tests, no emergency equipment and l/2 hour
for any Guard to even reply to inmate screams for help. This
is a pattern, no one is safe. The media needs to care. Every
mother and grandmother should tremble in their beds for what
apathy and silence is allowing in the name of justice right
under our noses.
B. Cayenne Bird
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/2398/home.html
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Prisoners of
USA War on Crime, War on Drugs (english)
by Judy Reinhold 2:17pm Sun Jan 14
'01 |
| address: 907 12th St., #3, Santa Monica, CA 90403 judyreinhold@hotmail.com
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The Geneva Convention (Convention III of 12 August 1949)
relative to the treatment of prisoners of war states: “Under
all circumstances, prisoners of war will receive any medical
care they may need and will preferably be treated by medical
personnel of the Power on which they depend and, if possible,
of their nationality.” Evidently the U.S. Government does not
treat its own ‘prisoners of war’ accordingly, having waged its
"War on Crime" and "War on Drugs" on its own citizens.
The denial of adequate medical care for prisoners is
being exposed as standard practice and we cannot ignore these
inhumane conditions any longer. At the rate California is
incarcerating people it won't be long before someone YOU know
is behind bars. Wake up, Californians!
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International
viewpoint on California prison (english)
by Mrs. Stanley 4:04pm Sun Jan 14
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Dear Editor:
I am writing to you today from Ottawa, Canada to
express my grave concerns about the conditions in California's
prisons where 39 people, including one visitor, have died
since November 1 .
Many of these deaths have likely
occurred due to lack of proper medical attention. All
prisoners receive little or no health care that is nowhere
near the standards available to other citizens.
As an
international observer, I urge all California citizens to
write to their political representatives demanding full
investigation by outside agencies, ie not the prisons
themselves, into the deaths and the ongoing health care crisis
which affects over 150,000 prisoners and their families. Let
me assure you that when planning a holiday, my destination
would never be the USA which to me is the most uncivilized
country in the world.
Sincerely,
Mrs. J.
Stanley
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Dear Editor:
The shocking op-ed penned by B.
Cayenne Bird about medical
neglect and the needless death
of the young Pomona mother,
Stephanie Hardie,
should
make us pause for at least a moment.
Christ was a
prisoner who was made to carry a heavy cross.
He was
flogged, beaten, humiliated, stakes were pounded through his
wrists, and his heart pierced with a sword.
We
have made no progress in handling crime since the dark ages.
I wonder if the media of the day
thought writing about
prisoner abuse such as that bestowed upon Christ
was
important. We call ourselves Christians and allow others to
be treated inhumanely?
Richard Till
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Dear Editor:
The article by B. Cayenne Bird and
prison medical neglect makes me ashamed to be a Californian.
Over the years I have read countless reports of a person
owning too many dogs or cats and going to prison for not
taking care of them. Those in Sacramento responsible for this
medical neglect should serve jail time for crimes against
humanity.It makes sense that prisoners should return to their
communities, healthier -not sicker mentally and physically.
Davis should be recalled for ignoring the alerts that resulted
in these deaths. I am outraged that people will work for a
system which routinely murders young people through medical
neglect.
Davis should be ex-Communicated from the
Catholic church for all the various forms of murder he
perpetuates.
Joanne Galvan
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California
Prisons Medical Neglect (english)
by
Sharon Kidcote 5:18pm Sun Jan 14 '01 |
| address: 25393 Via Palacio Santa Clarita, CA USA
phone: 661 255 6139 Winkapeep4@cs.com
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Dear Sirs: January 14, 2001
California does have
laws concerning at least minimal prisoner care. They rarely
get it. Many guards do not even know CPR -- an easy skill to
learn and one that everyone should know! It is time for reform
and it is time to challenge our elected officials. And,
please! No more prison administration denials implying that
inmates fabricate medical neglect stories "because they have
an axe to grind." These are facts, not isolated or unusual
incidents.
As preposterous as it may seem, these sorts
of things happen daily. Putting sunlight on these events is a
responsible act. I would like to thank B. Cayenne Bird for her
news articles on medical neglect in our California prison
system. Because of her efforts, I am now a member of UNION and
I urge all who care about "man's inhumanity to man" to learn
how you can bring common sense change to the management of our
prisons and to a population that has long been ignored.
Sincerely,
Sharon Kidcote
Santa Clarita,
CA USA
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Medical
Negelect is not part of the sentence (english)
by Charles Wesley 5:35pm Sun Jan 14
'01 |
| address: 14142 roscoe blvd #1 Panorama City, CA 91402
phone: 818-893-6046 billwesley63@yahoo.com
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Dear Editor
The death of Stephanie Hardie(prisoner)
and Jack Kryder a visitor is tragic. From personal experience
I know that this is all too common within the California
Prison System. The denial of adequate medical care is standard
practice. Most doctors that I met with dispense the same
medication for whatever ails you, you would receive Motrin for
back pain or severe chest pains such as Stephanie Hardie,
follow up care can take weeks.
I have witnessed an
Officer injured and a helicopter arrive within 7 mins to
transport him, yet Mr. Kryder waited 38 minutes and died. We
can not ignore these inhumane conditions any longer, at the
rate California is incarcerating people it won't be long
before someone you know is behind bars. We must all pay the
price of incarceration if we break the Law. But, Medical
Neglect is not part of the sentence.
Charles
Wesley
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Medical
negelect is not part of the sentence (english)
by Charles Wesley 5:43pm Sun Jan 14
'01 |
| address: 14142 Roscoe Blvd. #1 Panorama City Ca 91402
phone: 818-893-6046 billwesley63@yahoo.com
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California
Prison Medical Neglect (english)
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Sharon Kidcote 6:44pm Sun Jan 14 '01 |
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Dear Sirs: January 14, 2001
California does have
laws concerning at least minimal prisoner care. They rarely
get it. Many guards do not even know CPR -- an easy skill to
learn and one that everyone should know. It is time for reform
and it is time to challenge our elected officials. And,
please! No more prison administration denials implying that
inmates fabricate medical neglect stories "because they have
an axe to grind." These are facts, not isolated or unusual
incidents.
As preposterous as it may seem, these sorts
of things happen in our prisons daily. Putting sunlight on
these events is a responsible act. I would like to thank B.
Cayenne Bird for her efforts to correct the medical neglect
situaton in California. Because of her efforts, I am now a
member of UNION and I urge all who care about "man's
inhumanity to man" to learn how to bring common sense change
to the management of our prisons and to a population that has
long been ignored.
Sincerely,
Sharon Kidcote
Santa Clarita, CA USA
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Inmates are
human too. (english)
by G. Brooks
8:54pm Sun Jan 14 '01
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Dear Editor,
I loved the article by B. Cayenne
Bird. Don't get me wrong, I believe a person should pay for
his misdeeds, but I also believe they should not be treated as
less than human. Some of the ways these inmates are treated
are inhumane. We would be in prison for treating animals with
more care. Should a person that is serving time for their
crime have to fear for their life just because they made a
poor choice. Some of these inmates are just barely adults that
realize the error of their ways and want to make good of their
life.
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Dear Editor,
Thank you for the article by B.
Cayenne Bird. Some of these inmates should not even be serving
time. There is a difference between a true "life" sentence and
an indeterminate sentence. True "life" sentences are "life
without parole".
These people were sentenced to remain
in prison for the rest of their natural life. Indeterminate
sentences are "15-life", "25-life", etc. The "life" term is
there to give the system the "ability" to keep an inmate that
is not suitable for release locked up. It is NOT there to keep
those who are not a threat to society. Just the same as a
10-25 year sentence says "keep them for 10 years and release
them" unless there is reason not to, then keep them locked up
for the full 25 years.
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Poor Choices,
No Hope? (english)
by Regina Brooks
9:04pm Sun Jan 14 '01
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Dear Editor,
I would like to thank your paper for
publishing the news article written by B. Cayenne Bird . I
used to think all prisoners deserved what they got. I had the
same "lock them up and throw away the key" attitude that we
hear voiced by Gov. Davis and many others.
There are
many inmates that will be in prison for several years or even
life and are no more guilty than you or I. Sometimes it is
"jury tampering". Sometimes it is corrupt cops. Sometimes it
is just poor choices. I used to think that these were just an
excuse to get out of a crime. But now I understand that
misleading a jury or tampering with a jury can be the
difference between a five to ten year sentence and a life
sentence.
A person that should have served his time in
five years may be doomed to spend the rest of his life behind
bars because a jury was misinformed. Should these people be
treated as animals? For that matter should any person be
treated as less than human.
home.socal.rr.com/justaeagle
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Re: Medical
Neglect in CA Prisons by C. Bird (english)
by Deborah Jimenez 10:02pm Sun Jan 14
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Dear Editor:
The op-ed piece you ran on poor
medical care in state prison (by B. Cayenne Bird) pries the
lid off a little-considered world.
I live in the
largest city in my county, but all of its inhabitants equal
only 4/5 of California's prison population (160,000). Here we
have three hospitals, among many other medical facilities. The
phone book lists pages of doctors; nurses and therapists
abound.
What would it be like to live in a subdivision
which had little access to these facilities, where many of the
neighbors had mental or addiction problems, and where you were
surrounded by armed guards? In prison the neighbors and the
guards may go with the territory, but inadequate medical care
should not.
Deborah D. Jimenez, Santa Rosa,
CA
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Privatized
Prisons are Wrong (english)
by Lee Boek
2:27am Mon Jan 15 '01
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The day that the California Prisons fell into the hands of
private enterprise is the day that prison conditions and
accountability began to fall away. California once had a
prison system that was actually self sufficient in many areas.
There were prison facilities that actually raised the food and
supplied the milk. Inmates worked and the goal was the
rehabilitation of as many inmates as possible. It wasn't
perfect but it didn't leave the state with it's governor
focused more on fund raising from the gaurd's union than on
running a just system and California led the nation in its
criminal justice system.
One wonders when legislators
will realize that turning prisons into a business has a self
fulfilling element that demands more fodder for the burgeoning
business of incarceration. We the people are that potential
fodder.
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California's
Shame (english)
by Marlene Suttles
3:31pm Mon Jan 15 '01
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January 10, 2001
Dear Editor,
We have a
situation in our state that continually distresses me to hear
and
read about. It concerns the lack of medical care and
the continuing lack of compassion
that the system has for
the mentally handicapped and the incarcerated people in
our state prison system. There is also a rampart lack of
medical attention not
being given to any of these people
too. They are dying because of CDC's neglect. It appears that
not only are the prisoners being neglected but because a great
majority of guards are not trained in CPR and don't have very
much compassion for humanity, a
visitor died of an
apparent heart attack while frustrated visitors watched
helplessly. No one was even allowed to go out and try to help
the man. What a sad state of affairs. What does it take to
change this situation? Possibly a celebrity or
a
politicians family member has to be on the non receiving end
of this problem. God help us all.
A very concerned
citizen,
Marlene Suttles
Novato,CA 94945
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Tell Me Why
(english)
by Susan Davis 7:43pm Mon
Jan 15 '01 |
| address: 1277 Belridge Street # 7-B Oceano, CA 93445
phone: (805) 474-9334 Suseryyz@aol.com
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Dear Editor:
I am responding to recent articles
about the medical neglect and abuse in California's
prisons and County jails.
Can anyone tell me why
there is no substantial medical treatment for the seriously
ill in our prisons and jails?
Can anyone tell me why
another human being could turn their back on the dying?
Can anyone tell me why our society would rather turn the
other cheek, throw all of the misfortunate in prison and jail
and then condone the abuse and lack of medical care?
Can
anyone tell me why we all stand by and watch as the helpless
die a slow and agonizing death?
Can anyone tell me why we
lost our hearts and our souls?
Can anyone tell me why we
all continue to pay for it?
Tell me why...........
Susan Davis
Oceano, CA 93445
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Who said the DOC could step into God's shoes? It doesn't
matter if you're a killer or a petty thief or even innocent.
If you land behind bars,know for a fact you will be
starved,beaten,raped,tortured and possibly killed by Calif.
DOC. If you are sick in mind or body be assured you'll get
sicker and most likly die in the filth and stench. A place
where its a premium to receive a aspirin.Does Calif. have a
unusually ignorant, uncaring population?Of Course not.....But
why do they turn there heads and join the rest of the world in
allowing Hitlers rules to govern our prison system?Why do they
elect government officials who "get off" on human torture.Why
is this allowed to happen in a supposedly christian nation? If
you've done the crime, do the reasonable time. But the judge
did not add,medical neglect and inhuman living conditions to
anyones sentence. This must stop now.God's fury will be like
no other when he discovers who borrowed his
shoes.........
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God Forgive
Us (english)
by Linda 3:15pm Tue Jan
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The conditions that these men and women have to endure are
atrocious beyond words. There is no reason why a country that
considers itself to be civilized should allow neglect such as
this to go on. One day the majority of these people should be
returning to the streets. Is this neglect a way to make sure
they do not? I am sick that those in control allow such things
to go on as business as usual. I can only ask that God forgive
us because ultimately we the citizens are responsible because
we allow these tortures to continue. Gov. Davis, you should
hang your head in shame.
Linda C.
Virginia
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I was deeply concerned after hearing about the deaths of 3
women at Chowchilla State Prison. It seems like these people
are treated differenty than someone "outside" would be treated
in the same circumstances.
Something needs to be done to
help find out the "real story".
Every family who has
someone in one of our state prisons should be concerned and
voicing their opinion to their state representatives and
Govenor Gray Davis, who seems to be more on the side of the
"Prison Guard Association" than he is for helping the people
who are treated unjustly inside the prisons.
Also, if the
"media" was allowed access to the prisoners, maybe this
wouldn't have happened. It sounds like the injustices are
being hidden by the large and powerful prison system
Dee
Moore
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I was deeply concerned after hearing about the deaths of 3
women at Chowchilla State Prison. It seems like these people
are treated differenty than someone "outside" would be treated
in the same circumstances.
Something needs to be done to
help find out the "real story".
Every family who has
someone in one of our state prisons should be concerned and
voicing their opinion to their state representatives and
Govenor Gray Davis, who seems to be more on the side of the
"Prison Guard Association" than he is for helping the people
who are treated unjustly inside the prisons.
Also, if the
"media" was allowed access to the prisoners, maybe this
wouldn't have happened. It sounds like the injustices are
being hidden by the large and powerful prison system
Dee
Moore
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your own comments
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I was deeply concerned after hearing about the deaths of 3
women at Chowchilla State Prison. It seems like these people
are treated differenty than someone "outside" would be treated
in the same circumstances.
Something needs to be done to
help find out the "real story".
Every family who has
someone in one of our state prisons should be concerned and
voicing their opinion to their state representatives and
Govenor Gray Davis, who seems to be more on the side of the
"Prison Guard Association" than he is for helping the people
who are treated unjustly inside the prisons.
Also, if the
"media" was allowed access to the prisoners, maybe this
wouldn't have happened. It sounds like the injustices are
being hidden by the large and powerful prison system
Dee
Moore
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