State Controller Audit Confirms Massive Wasteful Spending and Abuse in California Prison Medical System

One of this biggest areas of waste is that there is little or no preventive medicine going on. Take nutrition for example. The government's pyramind specifies that men of average height and weight are to have 5 fresh vegetables, four fresh fruits, 3 dairy products, 6 to ll whole grains and certain types of oil, about 6 oz of high quality protein each day to maintain good health.

The latest Government recommendations are that all Americans are supposed to have two servings per week of farm-raised fish. This isn't happening either even though this nutrition is vital for good health

Most of the prisoners, at least half of them, suffer from life threatening diseases. They need fresh food to build up their health and save the taxpayers money but this isn't happening. The prisoners are being fed white starch, potatoes, rice and given canned and frozen garbage that has no vitamins in it. In fact they are never given vitamins.

they have a cold mystery meat sandwich each day full of sodium which is not on whole grain bread. If they are too sick to make it to breakfast, they cannot eat until dinner. Some prisoners have starved to death in their cells because they are too sick to walk to chow.

There are no eye exams to prevent macular degeneration, Prevention in medical areas could save so much money, along with good nutrition. CDC is pennywise and pound foolish.

These are human beings who are dying from neglect because somebody denies surgeries. The families need to file more lawsuits and elect people to office who care about the 3 million Californians attached to a state inmate. Those who don't care should be recalled from office or never elected in the first place.

Basic first aid and cleanliness, reducing the amount of intentionally-induced stress would automatically reduce the death toll and make everyone healthier. The body secretes deadly chemicals when placed under constant stress and causes numerous diseases such as hypertension, heart attacks, and lowered immune systems.

All levels of State employees should be required to have a basic health care education since they are causing so much of this destruction due to their callousness and ignorance.

Why are sick people in prison getting punished at all?

FINALLY! I have been working day and night to have this accomplished! I spent a total of 8 months in your prisons for the "crime" of rescuing my then 6 yr. old child from imminent death in California State care! I wrote letters to Governor Schwarzenegger from jail telling him exactly what what going on in there. Thank you, Governor Arnold!

Now the next thing California needs to IMMEDIATELY do is to investigate and audit the CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES industry - which is more corrupt and evil than the prison system, because it is perpetrated upon children who are exploited for federal funds. SHAMEFUL AND DISGUSTING, CALIFORNIA! CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!!!
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=2215

Statement of Honorable Joe Baca, a Representative in Congress from the State of California

I would like to thank Chairman Herger and Ranking Member Cardin for having this very important hearing. The lives of our children and stability of the family are in danger. While it is important to review state efforts to change this destructive system, we should not do that without first hearing the personal testimony of those families that were ripped apart and destroyed by local child protective services (CPS).
That is why, two months ago, I sponsored a Town Hall Forum on CPS Reform in San Bernardino, California. The forum was held to hear testimony and receive evidence of what many parents, grandparents, and advocacy organizations describe as “a festering cauldron of fraud, corruption, abuse of power and exploitation of children.”

During the eight hours of testimony, impassioned tales of rampant abuses of power, denials of due process protections, violations of civil rights, and accusations of blatant defrauding of the American taxpayer were presented by documentation, video, and prepared statements. In addition to local and regional activists, Arizona State Representative Ray Barnes and other staff members representing California legislators joined in the forum. Testimonies included documentation of a scheme designed by state counties and service providers to “maximize the federal funding stream” through financial incentives. While this in itself is not irregular, the focus on revenue at the cost of safety may be putting children and families at risk.
The testimonies continued unabated as parents and extended family members presented the committee with documentation of violations of state and federal statutes, denial of civil rights and predation upon vulnerable children and families by child welfare workers that regularly exceed their authority.

According to testimony, the unwarranted seizure of children from non-neglectful homes has become a national problem of staggering proportions. At any given time, there are now more than half a million children in custody in the United States. It was reported in the forum that an estimated one out of every twenty children goes into government custody and that CPS routinely violates the constitutional rights of parents and their children in the process of their “intervention.”
Nearly one-and-a-quarter million children now come under government observation each year in America. Witnesses stated that only about three percent of the children who are seized or taken into custody were physically abused. What is even worse they said, is that the children who are taken into state custody have an eight to eleven times greater chance of being abused than those who remain in their own homes.

Although most states have laws requiring a speedy trial to test the flimsy and often anonymous allegations against the parent, evidence was given that showed that often nearly a year passes before the parent even gets a partial chance to tell a judge their side of the story.
According to the forum there is little protection for the family once a court focuses its attention on a parent. Witnesses told stories of courts circumventing such basic rights as burden of proof, presumption of innocence and rules of evidence. They routinely violate due process, and equal protection rights. The system moves into a parent’s life and does nothing to help. As news reports and evidence from the forum has shown, scandals and abuse of power exist within the family and juvenile law industry.

As evidenced by this forum, abuses and errors in judgement are common. Instead of receiving comfort and encouragement, innocent parents and grandparents are often drawn into a system that has a sub-par record of protecting the children entrusted to it.
I am hoping to learn from this hearing what can be done and what has been done to protect our children and their families. It is a good start to monitor the states and review their practices. I hope that the result of this will yield concrete steps to protect our children and families from false accusations and destructive policies within the state CPS.

Please find attached the list of witnesses at the CPS forum in San Bernardino.
Speakers from Southern California

Ms. Patricia Barry Esq. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Darla Elwood Mother of five children Saugus, Los Angeles County

Fred Baughman, M.D. Retired Neurologist San Diego, San Diego County
Mrs. Trini M. Estrada-Brown Paternal Aunt Riverside, Riverside County

Mrs. Margaret Estrada-German Paternal Grandmother Norwalk, Los Angeles County
Mr. Howard Jeff Blaydes Father Lakewood, Los Angeles County

Rev. Joseph Campbell Mrs. Cheri Campbell Grandparents Morongo Valley, San Bernardino County
Mr. Peter W. Carissimo, ASA Author and Corporate CEO Newport Beach, Orange County

Ms. Cynthia Curry-Gilmore Maternal Grandmother, Guardian, Teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District
Member, United Teachers Los Angeles

Member, California American Family Rights Association Tujunga, Los Angeles County
Ms. Betty Curry Maternal Great Grandmother D.A. Investigator, Child Support Division (Ret.) Moorpark, Ventura County,

Mr. Kirk DeWitt Father Victorville, San Bernardino County
Ms. Desiree Nelson Fourteen-year-old victim of abuse

Mr. Paul Nelson and Mrs. Linda Nelson Parents of victim Simi Valley, Ventura County
Candace Owen Mother West Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

Ms. Linda Wallace Pate, Esq. Attorney at Law Los Angeles, Los Angeles County
Mr. Herbert Weisel Grandfather Adelanto, San Bernardino County

Speakers from Northern California
Ms. Karen Anderson Certified Mediator in accordance with the California Dispute Resolution Programs Act Certified Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Counselor by Office of criminal justice, Ione, Amador County

Ms. Theresa Cook Mother and Advocate Co-Director, Parents Against Corrupt System (PACS) Member, NAACP Santa Clara, Santa Clara County
Ms. Donna Crowder U.S. Army Veteran Nurse Grandmother, Mother of a Marine Past President North Kiwanis, Merced Addressed State Senate Health and Human Services Committee, April 5, 2000, regarding abuses of power by County CPS. Member, Lost Cherokee Tribes of Arkansas and Missouri

Mrs. LaDonna Gonzales, daughter Miss Yolanda Valenzuela, granddaughter

Mrs. Jeane Nelson, mother Merced, Merced County
Mrs. Nancee Crowell California-Nevada State Director, National Foster Parent Coalition Benton, Mono County

Ms. Myrna Fernandez Mother Burlingame, San Mateo County
Ms. Donna Fryer Paralegal/Law Student Sole Custodial Parent Former CPS Victim Campbell, Santa Clara County

Ms. Mary Gilbert Mother and Advocate Butte County Employee Affiliate, California Protective Parents Association Affiliate, Government Watch Magalia, Butte County
Ms. Michelle Tidmore Grandmother and Advocate Legal Eagles Law Research East Contra Costa Legal Education and Advocacy Project

Working in cooperation with Contra Costa Bar Association Antioch, ContraCostaCounty
Ms. Shawna Tidmore, Mother of Zierra, Kierra, Joseph and Logan

Ms. Miche1le Lujan Mother of Kerri, Jason, Justin, Jacob, Chuckie, Alan, and Angel several of whom have been taken by CPS Contra Costa County
Mr. Joseph K. Brown Father of Austin, Cheyenne, Cheyne, taken by CPS Network Administration Consultant Volunteer Firefighter Connecticut

Mr. William O. Tower Father, Victim of Abuse by Human Services as a child and as a parent both in Maine and California Member of American Family Rights Association
Mrs. Anne E. Tower Mother, Victim of Abuse by Human Services in Maine and California Member, American Family Rights Association Fair Oaks, Sacramento County, California Speakers from Outside California

Mr. Fred Baker Former Foster Care Provider in Los Angeles County North Carolina
Ms. Patti Diroff Paralegal Member, Children’s Rights Council Aunt of a 5-year boy and a 2-year-old boy Testifying on behalf of their family from Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina

Mr. Glee A. Burt Maternal Grandfather

Mrs. Elizabeth L. Burt Maternal Grandmother

Mrs. Jennifer McLean Mother
Mr. Joe McLean Stepfather Jacksonville, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Ms. Sherilyn Claverie Mother New Orleans, Louisiana

Ms. Elaine Wolcott Ehrhardt Mother Member, American Family Rights Association Port Orchard, Kitsap County, Washington

Mr. Ted Gunderson FBI Senior Special Agent in Charge (Ret) California and Nevada

Ms. Judi Amber Chase Co-Founder, The Earth Harmony Foundation Co-chair, The International Rights Children Committee Creator, The Every Child is Everyone’s Child Campaign Author, “Walls of Secrecy” to be released Spring 2004 California and Colorado

Mr. Tom Hanson Public Advocate for Poor Children and Family Rights Former Foster Child Texas
Mr. Matthew Kneen Ms. Lori Fields Parents of two children who died while in foster care Minneapolis, Minneapolis County, Minnesota

Ms. Christine M. Korn Mother, Grandmother Director of Colorado Family Rights Association Affiliate, American Family Rights Association Representing American Family Advocacy Center of Colorado Penrose, Fremont County, Colorado
Mr. Earl David Retired Airline Pilot Father of an abused son Member, Judicial Reform Member, J’Accuse of Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Mrs. Joanna Wright President, Hope4Kidz, Inc. Making Time For Kids, Because Kids Can’t Wait for Time Advocate, Foster Children in State Residential Treatment Centers Houston and Austin, Houston and Austin Counties, Texas

Of course, it goes without saying that "greed" should be spelled with a capital "G", when authority is placed in the hands of a few without any public oversight.

There is no public oversight of prison officials. They think they are above the law because, they are the keeper of the keys that lock the prison doors.

I have maintained for years that the only diffirence between prison personnel and the prisoners is the color of their uniform, and the direction the door swings to be locked. When the protectors of the prisoners are as bad or worse than the prisoner then it is high time to stop the CDC and cut off all funds for expansion of prisons.

Otherwise if Schwarzenegger wants to build more prisons, why not just put a tall fense around all of California, and it can be named the "State belly of prison."

There should not be any more prisons built in California. The ones we have need to house only "real criminals." All others should be released to be placed in outside treatment facilities. Thus cutting the cost of warehousing people like they are animals. Billions of dollars could be saved if only our leaders of this State had one ounce of common sense, and wanted real rehabilitation.

We are truly a sick society if all we want to see is punishment without any hope of rehabilitation or release from the concrete walled cages we call prisons. There will be a big price to pay for ignorance of how human beings should be treated if they are ever to be cured of their conditions.

WE WILL HOLD YOU CALIFORNIANS ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR FEDERAL SPENDING!
Did you know that, even in this day and age of technology and information at our fingertips, there is no single source of information explaining where federal money is spent?

It's time that changed -- and folks from across the political spectrum are coming together to make sure it does.

U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced the bi-partisan bill S. 2590, the "Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act," a bill that will create a Google-like search engine and database to track approximately $1 trillion in federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved S. 2590 unanimously this past week.

"Passing this bill will help end the culture of secrecy in Washington and restore some measure of the public's confidence in government," Dr. Coburn said after the Committee passed the bill. "Technology has made it possible, like never before, to fulfill our founders' vision of enabling all citizens to understand our nation's finances, investigate abuses and hold elected officials accountable," Dr. Coburn said, adding that a hearing being held that day in the House Government Reform Committee on abuses in homeland security contracting highlights the urgent need to include contracts in the database.

"All Americans deserve to know where their money is being spent. 'Googling' the government will not only help expose and eliminate waste, but dispel misconceptions about the scope of our commitments. Many Americans, for example, assume we are spending a large percentage of our budget on foreign assistance when we are not. Whether you're on the left or right, there is no worthy argument against transparency," Obama said.

During a July 18 hearing on the bill in the Federal Financial Management Subcommittee, Sen. John McCain called the plan "the tool necessary to put us on track to real accountability and reform."

Eighteen Senators have co-sponsored S. 2590 including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Tom Carper (D-DE), Susan Collins (R-ME), Joe Lieberman (D-CT), John McCain (R-AZ), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), John Kerry (D-MA) and George Allen (R-VA).

More than 100 organizations ranging from Focus on the Family and Taxpayers for Common Sense to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Greenpeace have endorsed S. 2590.

Dozens of editorial boards across the country including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times and The Oklahoman have also endorsed the bill.

Now the grassroots across America -- that's YOU and ME -- need to demand that Congress finally pass this much-needed bill.

TAKE ACTION: If we're going to hold the federal government accountable for its performance, then we need to empower the public with basic information about who's receiving federal dollars and what they're doing with them. This bill will shed some much-needed light on the activities of most federal agencies, allowing the public to decide for themselves whether their tax dollars are well spent

One thing is certain, the prisoners are not getting the medical care. They are eating white starch and not even getting fresh fruit and vegetables. Nor are they getting vitamins.

There have been filth diseases traveling as epidemics throughout the prisons that leak out to the public through the guards and vendors.

Transfers didn't stop, classes didn't stop and filth diseases are considered routine. Money isn't spent on anti-bacterial cleaning products for the prisoners, their laundry is crammed in dryers and comes back smelling like urine. With so many diseases raging as epidemics, you'd think clean laundry, soap, clean towels, clean showers and cleaning supplies as well as adequate toilet paper would be a high priority, now wouldn't you.

Guess what folks. This is not happening. Prisoners are never given basic vitamins, if they need surgeries the wardens transfer them from prison to prison to avoid paying this cost out of their budgets.

A prisoner must be almost dead to get any medical help and usually by then it's too late. But of course the death certificate always says "death by natural causes"

these are people's loved ones, their family members, and the costs of more and more lawsuits need to be added onto to the current waste.

It's evil what is being done to the prisoners for jobs and slave labor to the State. Pure evil. All because voters let law enforcement labor unions rule over us.

This is not what the veterans fought for in all the wars.

an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There is litle or no preventive screening going on. Some 8000 cases of hepatitis are caught in the prisons each year that are spreading like wildfire out into the community, not to mention MRSA staph.

The guards are so illiterate and callous they use medical care as a power tool to withhold as punishment. When the prisoner returns to his cell after one of the rare surgeries, his bandages are not changed, his medication has no continuity, often he is punished because he is too sick to go to work. Even when something very serious has happened.

Why are the sick in prison at all? Prisons aren't hospitals. they are places of torture

The coming Tsunami:

In 4 years the state prison population will grow to 184,000 or 12,000 more than are incarcerated today. A plan is being discussed to add 2 prisons or about 9,000 more beds but no approval to build, no schedule exists for building, and no plan where to build has been revealed.

Once all of this is done, how many years will the NIMBYs add to the build cycle? Politics has already prevented an EMPTY, EXISTING prison to be reopened. Can it be assumed that it might be a bit more difficult to actually build two more?

The only conclusion is that unless something is done to relieve the overcrowding that has a short term effect, 12,000 more will be stuffed into the system in 4 years time.

In 15 years the population is estimated to be 198,000 an additional 14,000 or at least 3.5 MORE prisons full or massive over crowding.

About 70,000 of the incarcerated are parole violators. Some data show as high as 85% of this number is for technical violations, not new crimes. Since California recidivism rate is twice the average of the rest of the country’s might 30,000 lower population be achieved by changes to the parole system which do not threaten safety/security but are in line with the rest of the states?

With an estimated 25 to 40,000 mentally ill incarcerated, shouldn’t many of these be placed in institutions for the mentally ill and not prisons?

With an estimated 25,000 incarcerated illegal aliens, cannot a significant reduction be made by reaching an accord with their home governments and Washington to take charge of these prisoners? How about the many thousands that could be in drug treatment under proposition 36? California is simply ignoring the proposition passed by the people and directed by the court.

With longer sentences, 3 strikes rules, non-release of term to life sentences, more and more criminal statutes, which do little or nothing to reduce crime, major sentencing review and revision is called for.

The guard count is estimated today to be 4,000 below required staff levels. An additional 1,000 reduction by the end of this year due to retirements, now at age 50, exceeding newly hired guards is forecast. At about 1 guard for every 6 prisoners, there is an additional requirement for 2,000 in 4 years for predicted increased population. If no further attrition occurs, the shortage will be 7,000. Then in 15 years another 3,300 more guards are needed for the additional 14,000 predicted new prisoners.

Wouldn't you think the conveyor belt laws designed to keep the prisons stocked with slaves to the state for all their industry and jobs for law enforcement would be revised? But no, the "punisher" crowd has a new war on the people coming with Jessica's law.

This will overflow the prisons even more as teens are already getting ensnared in these ridiculous non solution laws in other states.

Wouldn't you think our government would make an investment in crime prevention? In preventing mental illness and substance abuses through education and support of our young people? Of free after school activities and jobs?

Locking people in cages never has been nor will it ever be a deterrent to crime. Restorative justice, prevention, support of our young people, strong church and family, these are real solutions to crime.

We as the people must stop electing law enforcement's candidates and elect people who are going to be smart on crime to put an end to this vicious cycle

While we are on the subject of "massive wasteful spending and abuse" within the prison system, does anyone know what ever became of this, closely related fiasco of graft and mismanagement?
(02-26) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- California corrections officials allowed contractors hired to run drug abuse treatment programs in state prisons to go on taxpayer-funded shopping sprees that led to the purchases of electric guitars, plasma televisions, $26,000 camcorders and cars.

Even as the prison system faced annual criticism for overspending its budget by hundreds of millions of dollars, contractors racked up big bills on all kinds of items that seemed to have little to do with helping prisoners kick drug habits, according to state documents. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/26/PRISONS.TMP&feed=rss.news

Were the contracts rescinded? The contractors and officials responsible for overseeing the programs censured? The cars and guitars and big TVs auctioned?
This story just vanished.... where did it go?

To Michael and Susan: I spent a total of 8 months of my life in your prisons for the "crime" of rescuing my child from imminent death in your child concentration camps orchestrated by taxpayer-funded CPS! If you want the TRUTH, ask a real prisoner of your State, me. They charged me with "child stealing" my OWN child! Excuse me, but last time I checked I am listed on my son's birth certificate as his legal PARENT, not the State of California! God gave ME the human rights as custodian of the child who came from MY body! And, it turns out I was right! My child was stolen by CPS because I refused to put him on a dangerous drug, Ritalin, which the FDA has now proclaimed to have caused over 75 deaths of children. If you want to stop this evil system of trafficking in humans by the prison industry in California, you must first REFORM the JUDICIAL system and Child "Protective" Services, which by the way was orchestrated by Democrats under the Mondale Act. I have just filed my 5th appeal of the denial of my due process rights to testify at my own hearing and submit exculpatory evidence! Throwing more money into the prison system is not the answer. No one should even be in your prisons unless they have committed a violent crime, i.e., terrorism, murder, rape or sodomy. Take that money you are pouring down a hole and give that money back to FAMILIES so that children do not grow up in your system as creatures of the State and age-out only to get sent back into the prison system that YOU created in the first place!
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Your new State Tourism motto should be:

CALIFORNIA! COME ON VACATION! LEAVE ON PROBATION! RETURN ON VIOLATION! WE'LL STEAL YOUR CHILDREN AND LOCK YOU UP IN OUR PRISONS!

Then, replace the Bear on your flag with the LIZARD.

Yes, the holy grail of the Republicans to punish for life, to build the law enforcement labor unions ever higher and vote down everything to treat or prevent mental illness are directly responsible for these wars on the people.

Another one is coming in the form of Jessica's Law. The primary goal is to stock the prisons with slave labor so the State can get government funds and pay lowly prison guards huge salaries.

It's a huge industry. Gray Davis always voted with the Republican politicians which is why his own people helped recall him, but the Democrats have been able to push through a number of reforms in these areas.

Most of the worst judges are Conservatives, this is why voters must stop Republicans from getting elected to any office anywhere in the land. Somehow they turned into Fascists.

The law enforcement labor unions always vote for those who espouse "tough on crime" and "punishment" which is not being smart on crime at all. There are about four bad Democrats who need to be sent home from the legislature as well.

The voters apathy and lack of knowledge on how their elected officials vote is what is behind all this destruction of families.

Study the voting records of the politicians and it becomes clear that the Republicans are most at fault and will be the most resistant to any reforms.

The people who don't vote and do a thing to stand up to these law enforcement Unions are also to blame.

Is this Hollywood? Most all of you are living in fantasyland. You have no clue what is going on inside the prisons. Let me see... The punishment for murdering a child is er eh fresh fruit and top notched medical care and compassionate understanding. Whew!

I'm a doctor working at a California State Prison. When I was hired I was told my mandate was to practice medicine according to "the standard of care in the community". But my hands are often tied.I cannot get the tests or lab results or treatments for my patients the way I would in the community. I spend at least half my time going through the charts trying to find test results or other doctors' notes. Then tons of time is spent filling out multiple forms for the same thing. I can't order a diabetic diet (the mainstay of treatment for a diabetic)because all inmates are served the same food. I can't order medicines 4 times a day (presumably not enough staff to administer them). If I order a test or procedure as "urgent" it might take 3 or more months to do it. I see a patient who needs close follow-up, whom I'd normally see in a week, but when I ask for a one week follow-up visit I get told that I'm "clogging up the system". They should see the same doctor when they return, but they're constantly getting shuffled around, so we're often starting from scratch/reinventing the wheel.Inmates are constantly being ordered the correct treatments, but "somehow" it never gets done. I'm not saying this happens every single time, but it sure happens often. My second day at the prison, I was so depressed that I almost walked out. I'm getting used to it now, and I just keep trying to do my best, but it's very discouraging--and that's for me. I can't imagine how discouraged the patients are.

Why are we taking care of Prisoners and leaving the elderly so exposed with bad health care. People who are hard working taxpayers cannot afford healthcare, put off going to the doctor, and you want me to worry about a drug user who has been convicted of a crime? NO NO NO NO As for the person who worried about what these prisoners are fed, who cares they're lucky to get a meal many old people don't eat and don't run the air conditioner when its hot to save money. The prisoners sit in jail with air conditioned cells and three meals a day. I really don't give a hoot about any of them.

Prison Doc the last time I went to the doctors I paid $150 for medication and $75 for the visit plus I paid $365 for monthly Blue Cross. I work hard stay within the law. Do you worry that I didn't go back to the doctor to save money or that I need a chest xray and worry how much that will cost? No you would rather worry about a sex offender? Think again please

I work in the medical health care system in CDCR and yes it is very much broke. To many people some not even medical personal has had the ability to hold the purse strings and use the money for their Department. (look at the number of personal assigned to SAC who never see a inmate)Wardens,BU6 has had the power to hold the funds for a long time for their own use.(sick calls are rampant,no one on the outside would have a job if they called in as much as the officers do)Do I think they deserve better TX then the elderly NO! But what happens is we do not do preventative medicine because we do not want to spend the money then we end up spending much more due to the illness.Lack of training is a huge issue.Upper management gets trainied awhile those that actually care for inmates don't. Lack of equiptment also is huge!!!!!! I can tell you for a fact most resthomes have better equiptment than most medical department in CDCR does. 1 nurse for 1 1000 inmates is comman.I could go on and on. No accountability of what amount of equiptment is used and ordered. Pharmacy is way out there on accountability. Building for medical care that would be condemmed in the community.I think Sillen was over due to happen.

I cant begin to express how some of these comments made me sick... the angry tax payer.. let me enlighten you on something... maybe 2% of the prison population are child molesters. How dare you consider yourself better then anyone else. I had a friend that did 22 years in a calif prison for a crime she didnt commit.. it took 22 years for her to prove she was innocent, and your scandalous, corrupted, bribe taken, prejudice judical system is the cause for her losing 22 precious years of her daughters life... DNA cleared her... so dont you dare think you are better then any one.. you are not God and you have absolutely no right to Judge any body... if you care to email me or visit my site you may learn something, and you might realize is every one is human and that could be you in that prison unable to get the medical attention that you now take for granted. voice_for_freedom@yahoo.com or http://voiceforfreedom.bravehost.com

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