Lawsuits: AL jailers let prisoners die from easily treatable illnesses to save money
Source: Raw Story
Three lawsuits recently filed in federal court accuse the state of Alabama of denying prisoners with easily treatable illnesses or injuries proper medical care resulting in the prisoners death.
According to AL.com, the lawsuits have been filed over the deaths of three inmates, including a 19-year-old who died naked on a cell floor from gangrene.
The three suits allege the jailers in Madison County withhold the basic medical care in order to save money, believing that the insurance carried by the out-sourced medical contractor will cover any lawsuits filed against them.
One of the lawsuits alleges that Deundrez Woods, a 19-year-old from Huntsville, died in jail in August as the result of a gangrenous wound in his foot that was left untreated.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/lawsuits-al-jailers-let-prisoners-die-from-easily-treatable-illnesses-to-save-money/
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)lets a child die untreated like this? They must be broken inside.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Sounds like a case of negligent homicide to me. Of course, with RWers in power in AL, don't hold your breath waiting for anyone to file charges against the warden, or whoever heads the Criminal justice system in that state. Don't know if the Feds have jurisdiction to file any criminal charges.
But definitely this is negligent homicide.
archaic56
(53 posts)MY own grandfather, half Cherokee had to hide his race to keep from being ,lynched. I hated Alabama when I grew up there and I hate it now.. Rednecks bigots and ignorant stupid people who don't realize we all are one. NO hope for this world NOT One bit.. of course it was homicide and to be expected ..watch, they'll bring back lynching next.. I have no faith in humankind..prayers for the families
tclambert
(11,087 posts)All the ethics and morals and philosophy they discuss on the humanities side of campus doesn't count over on the business school campus, where measurable figures in dollars trump all other concerns.
msongs
(67,453 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)would be to let their inmates die, dispose of the bodies discreetly, & keep on charging the state for housing them.
Kinda gives "being in the Hole" a whole new meaning.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)though they apparently listed their mysterious dead inmates as escapees, or reported they had died of natural causes. Cummins and Tucker were reportedly very profitable prison farms, while many prisoners went malnourished. They say the movie "Brubaker" was based partly on these prisons.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I forget where that was, some TV show about somebody sick who couldn't get medical insurance?
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)isn't white, wealthy, and of the correct religious persuasion (Christian Reconstructionist).
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)If this was a nursing home instead of a prison criminal charges would happen. Neglect being the least of these. The crimes are premeditated so that should bring harsher charges and sentences.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)people would be facing charges.
Omaha Steve
(99,737 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)One of the many ways it is bad.
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)That's what these people are. Prisons should never, ever, ever be for profit, because there is simply too much conflict of interest.
What bothers me is that apparently these horrible, disgusting human beings are STILL free and no charges are being levied against them for gross negligence, negligent homicide, and violation of the victims' civil rights. Not only should these foul excuses for public servants be jailed but this county should have to pay and pay and pay and pay punitive damages. They should have to pay SO much in punitive damages that no other county will EVER allow that to happen.
In addition, the corporate owned media should report on this with single minded intensity so everyone can see what a farce private prisons actually are, and maybe a national dialog could begin around getting rid of private prisons FOR GOOD.
StevePaulson
(174 posts)That should fix the problem.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)KrazyinKS
(291 posts)What goes through their head? Do they think these people are another species, like dogs or squirrels that lie dead in the streets, not like them who belong to a superior race just like the Bible says?
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)How do you just sit back and allow someone to suffer and die when you can do something to prevent it?
Sick.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)You vote for people who will make harmful policy you own all the bad those policies bring.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)His whole body was swolen with fluid, he died two days later. Had they gotten him to the hospital when the problem started he would have lived.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)littlewolf
(3,813 posts)Response to Galraedia (Original post)
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jwirr
(39,215 posts)area51
(11,923 posts)It's what you would expect to happen in a third-world country. But we are a country with citizens without a right to health care.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)While we might find this unconscionable, the masses have chosen to ignore the plight of prisoners (with some actively defending).