Is this gonna make me depressed again before bed? sigh opens link
Getting arrested is a death sentence, no matter the crime in the USA. My uncle was arrested, but never made it to trial. He had a heart attack and the guards just ignored his requests for medical help until after he dropped dead. They didn’t start CPR until it was too late because they decided he was being dramatic and faking when he initially collapsed. Did my uncle deserve to be arrested, yes. He also deserved a trial and access to medical care. He did not deserve to die. Fuck fascists, fuck capitalism, fuck the USA, fuck the whole corrupt and broken system.
The OP story and your uncle’s story and countless others are what made me a prison abolitionist. People take actions that can’t be accepted in a functioning society but there are other ways to address that than prison.
Watching 60 days in is such an awkward ride. People treated like animals. Some guy who possessed weed laying in a shit stained room together with a mentally ill person who’s hobby it is to scream for 5 hours straight at night. 20 year olds who have been i. Jail for the 8th time, because once you’ve been in jail, you’re a criminal, won’t get a job, so you commit nore crime just to get back to jail, until being in jail is the only place you can even exist.
Whenever i see people saying shit like they are “america fan” i wanna throw up.
In the early morning hours of April 24, doctors in Spokane intubated Alex after he struggled to breathe. An anesthesiologist on duty tried to call Katie, but the guard minding Alex stopped him. “I made all attempts to contact family but was actively prohibited from calling them directly by guard accompanying [patient] in room,” the anesthesiologist wrote in a medical note submitted that morning. “I threatened to just call wife directly but was told in strong terms not to as this was not ‘protocol.’” Asked what protocol the guard was referring to, a Department of Corrections spokesperson wrote that “incarcerated individuals are not allowed to make calls from their hospital rooms,” but did not explain why the guard prevented the doctor from calling.
How horrible. I wonder how many of the population will become similar hidden statistics if we don’t wake TF up?
