Man Died of Neglect, Inmates Say

[Sinistrous]

This made my blood boil. I have to question the humanity of many who chose to be prison guards.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=27&u=/latimests/20040315/ts_latimes/mandiedofneglectinmatessay

Man Died of Neglect, Inmates Say

Mon Mar 15, 7:55 AM ET

By Mark Arax Times Staff Writer

FRESNO — For two months, guards and medical staff at a state prison in Corcoran failed to provide meals or emergency care to an elderly inmate dying of malnutrition, according to inmate accounts given to a state senator.

In the days before 72-year-old Khem Singh starved to death at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility last month, fellow inmates said, they alerted correctional officers to his grave condition and filed official complaints about his mistreatment.

But no medical help was provided, even as it became clear to inmates that Singh, a Sikh priest from India who spoke no English and was crippled, had become emaciated and was intent on killing himself.

There is more, much more. Please read.

[DenverDem]

1. They hate us for our freedom

indeed!

We are xenophobic monsters.

A reckoning is coming, soon.

[DoNotRefill]

2. So what's the solution?

force feeding somebody who refuses to eat?

When do you start? As soon as they declare a hunger strike?

It sounds to me like the guy literally decided to starve himself to death over mortification of what he'd done to land in prison.

I only have the information in the article to go on, but it sounds like the guy deliberately killed himself just as surely as if he'd made a noose out of his sheet and hung himself. I'm basing this on the statement of the inmate, not anything the Government said.

Don't inmates have the right to die if that's what they want to do? And wouldn't force feeding the guy for the duration of his sentence be cruel and unusual punishment?

[texasdem99]

3. Corcoran has a history of neglect of inmates

Isn't that the same place where there was an expose on A&E or some other channel? I'm almost positive it was.

The guards were caught penning up two inmates from rival gangs together and watching them fight and placing bets, or something like that, right on camera.

That place is a mess.