Infrastructure Nightmares
Introduction to this Topic by the Editor
I need to give you a little background on Perryville so this will be more understandable. This prison was built in the early
Explaining the Shower Picture
This is an accurate sketch of a real shower in “B” yard, Santa Cruz unit. Do you see the loose wires hanging in the lower door jamb? I was told they were “live” because this shower light is still on. I won’t test this theory! I’ve tried to portray all the standing water in front of those wires. All the shower units have standing water because the drains are all plugged.
Standing water = black mold we see everywhere
When inmates complained about the condition of this shower, they just took off the door and left it open. In the shower next to this one (not pictured) is the same filth.
The regulators (hot and cold) will not engage so moving the handle from Hot to Cold does nothing. The temperature the DOC sets is what you get. In the winter the water is cold and in the summer, it’s hot. The water pressure would increase dramatically if they would soak the shower heads in Lime-aWay to remove 50 years of accumulated minerals.
W.E.’s Story
(This is W.E.’s story) ” I was born in September of 1950. I have diabetes, heart disease, and COPD. The first week I was at San Carlos an LVN (who shouldn’t be doing injections anyway), overdosed me by 10 cc’s of insulin. Instead of 4 cc of insulin, she gave me 14! As soon as I got back to my bunk I passed out. It was so serious I spent 5 days in the hospital.
My diabetes was very well controlled on the outside, but here it’s a crapshoot. I was taking inhalation therapy for my COPD, but here all they allowed was an emergency inhaler.
I came really close to going blind thanks to the morons at medical. The prison Optometrist tried really hard to get me to see Dr. Heller MD for an offsite appointment. Shortly after seeing the optometrist, I did get an appointment with Dr. Heller. He said I had monocular degeneration, cataracts, and bleeding in both eyes. I had been going to medical complaining about almost total blindness in my left eye. Dr. Heller immediately gave me two shots to stop bleeding and fluid loss. He said he’d tell the prison that it was imperative that I come back every 4 weeks for more shots. Of course, weeks went by without seeing Dr. Heller again. Bless that optometrist though, when I told him I hadn’t been seen, he got on the phone and made the appointment with Dr. Heller himself.
I have had visions all my life, and I had one last night that I died in prison days from being released. I hope this vision doesn’t come true.”
One Woman Taken To Hospital While 7 Others Go Into Seizures
Dateline: San Carlos. Mid-morning an elderly woman fell out of her bunk, face first, and unresponsive. An ambulance and firetruck arrived at the gate to take the stricken inmate to the hospital.
The guards emptied out C bay and made them stay near the basketball court. Almost immediately, you could watch them collapse like dominoes…. bam bam..one by one they hit the deck seizing. Apparently, when under stress, people prone to having a seizure suffer from one when they see others have it.
Guards and nurses were running from one patient to the next. As I was watching, I kept thinking what is medical giving these poor people? Or what are they NOT giving them? I never saw anyone have a seizure on the outside….only in prison. And why always Charley bay?
The DOC immediately got out the K9 to sniff for drugs…nope that wasn’t it. They never see the obvious. Naphcare is unable to supply medical care to these inmates. That’s only my conclusion having watched this train wreck today.
More cAGEing stories from our series on the elderly
JM: Is 80 years old and has been in Perryville since 2005. She has diabetes, and hypertension, and has had multiple heart attacks while incarcerated. The prison delayed proper treatment until her latest heart attack, at which time she was at the hospital getting a pacemaker put in.
The guards told the attending physician, Dr. Garr, that JM had to return to the prison. Dr. Garr refused until her pacemaker was properly inserted and working well. He told them if she went back to prison before he was finished it would be fatal for JM.
Recently, she was pale with sweats and the Provider told her it was “normal” and “not to worry”. Another trip to the cardiologist showed water around her heart, a fatal abnormality that could have ended her life.********
CO: Is 65 years old, has COPD, Hep C, and vascular disease. She said the prison won’t treat her for Hep C until she is F3, and now she is F2. Before she was arrested, Modern Vascular put in 2 stents and used balloons to increase her circulation. She was scheduled for a follow-up appointment when she went to Perryville. CO signed a release form to get those important records sent to the prison.
The Provider has failed to get her the follow-up with Modern Vascular and has not addressed her feet turning purple.
When previously incarcerated in Perryville, she complained of repeated falling. The Provider told her it was ” because you’re old”. Soon, she couldn’t walk at all and needed three back surgeries to be able to walk again.
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