This Is How Bad The Health Care Is In Private Prisons [ThinkProgress.org]

My friend who was in the Genessee County Jail (Flint) for several months, sent me a letter asking (no begging) if I could somehow get the warden to give him his psyche meds. I didn't even bother to try. Not because I don't care but I knew this would be a hopeless endeavor. I actually tried initially and it brought him more trouble than assistance. This is how trauma un-informed this whole system is.  He had attempted suicide several times in the past and was even in a coma where his adoptive family was contemplating taking him off life support. This will sound bad but now that he is sentenced to a Michigan State Prison - I bet he, and I kind of wish they - -had taken him off life support  (thought I would have been mad at the time) because of Love for a human being - hurt and with an ACE score of 6-7-  and I am certain he will become someone's "Bitch". Hoping my thoughts don't become reality, but a really horrific worry I have. Skinny, white male that kind of looks like a girl.  My heart is broken. I hate what we do. I ask, How can we call ourselves "civilized" and how can we call this "rehabilitation"!!!!!  It is punitive retribution and a life wasted??????" I beg to differ we ARE NOT CIVILIZED AND THIS IS NOT REHABILITATION.  

Worse yet, they would call this rehabilitation for adolescents.  My cousin did some bad things (like molest my brother) he was put in Juvenile and was raped himself.... He didn't grow... He was messed up.... He died in January in a Motor Cycle accident... He didn't wear a helmet... but as soon as he was old enough, he left Michigan and never came back till my cousin brought back his ashes..... 

Knowing what we ACEsConnection members know about ACEs, and the likelihood that most prisoners probably have higher than "normal" ACE scores, can we endorse [the validity of] this Nurse's strike? I personally, am willing to support their strike, as having poor health care in a [for-profit] prison, can be "life-threatening enough" to cause prisoner's hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axes to activate, and possibly be a factor markedly similar to one of the prisoner [health care] concerns raised during the Attica prison uprising in New York in 1971. There is a potential for a positive [win-win] outcome, when both inmates and correctional officers are co-trained in EMT/Paramedic skills, and acquire additional marketable skills, and co-operate to manage a cell-to-cell "Sick call process"..., such as was proposed by William R. Morehouse, M.D., (a Family Practice Resident) at Attica, in 1972, and described in detail in his book: "Voyage of HMS Beagle II".