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Sunday, August 04, 2024

Neglect. Deliberate indifference. Inappropriate and delayed treatment. Records state officials fought for years to keep secret show this was the type of health care provided to 21 people the state incarcerated in 2017, the last year UConn Health was hired by correction officials to provide prisoners medical care.

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So... the State of Connecticut, when it incarcerates people, assumes responsibility for those people under its aegis.

Yet Connecticut seems to fail in that aspect.

Not only fail, but apparently trying to hide how much it has failed.

At this point, this does not look good.



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-04 12:18 AM | Reply

Thank you LAMPLIGHTER for posting this important article. In 2012, Connecticut formally abolished capital punishment, but this report suggests the death penalty is unofficially in practice.

Stats: CT prison population = ~10,000. The average CT correction officer salary is $42,331 (between $33,940 and $48,650; the highest salary was $140,884). There are 7,000 total employees in CT's prison system; 3,429 of which are COs working in 18 facilities.

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Sources:

govsalaries.com

www.prisonpolicy.org

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-08-04 01:11 AM | Reply

So much for the prison's rehabilitation efforts.

#3 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-08-04 10:25 PM | Reply

The real crime is these deaths are designated "natural causes" instead of what they are negligent homicides.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-08-04 11:33 PM | Reply

I did 4 stints in health care in various prisons. Longest 2 1/2 years, shortest 3 months. It is dehumanizing and brutal. You don't get the best and the brightest medical and nursing staff, if you can find them. My last brief time, I was the highest paid locums in the state for my specialty but couldn't continue in the conditions. I worked in a fairly enlightened state with decent staffing ratios and just couldn't drag myself there anymore.
My last day I did an assessment through a 2 X 6 in plexiglass window with 2 guards nearby in full riot gear. Supermax inmates would usually be taken to a small plexiglass room and secured to a chair with two sets of cuffs and leg irons before they would let me in another door to sit across from them. CO would be outside and another watching a monitor of our interaction. I decided there isn't enough money or intangible rewards to get me to come back.

#5 | Posted by mattm at 2024-08-05 10:26 AM | Reply

Just remember all you DR lib kids, the healthcare in those facilities are government run (or, the very least, government funded which forces the entities to conform to federal law).

While remembering that, remember YOU want the government to also run healthcare for the entire country.

If you can't connect the dots, you are a partisan person who has allowed yourself to be groomed by your party instead of being an independent thinker who actually has the ability to criticize your party. And it's not a bad thing to criticize your party so that they start acting right. Unfortunately, Dems have failed to do that.

Luckily, we have many developed nations who do let the government run their healthcare. And, fortunately for those who actually have been to those countries and understand the dichotomy, you also can plainly see the comparisons between US prison healthcare and the healthcare of those countries. And I'm not trying to be mean about it, it's obvious those countries' healthcare systems aren't run like what we see in US prisons...but the negatives of government healthcare DO match up. And, until Dems find a way to counter those negatives so they aren't so negative to the entire country, the current iteration of government healthcare Dems want is fraught with too much corruption and negative impacts to the masses. I'd love universal healthcare IF someone could find a way to do it that wouldn't lessen the healthcare I get today. And it will, there is no doubt about that at all. Just like there is no doubt about it that it would probably be cheaper in the long run for everyone (even with taxes going up to pay for it). So, while there are some positives to it, the negatives are too much and that can be plainly seen by understanding the relationship of the socialized healthcare to our US prison system.

#6 | Posted by humtake at 2024-08-05 11:43 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trumpy's idea of prison reform is making sure there is a comfortable prison cell somewhere that is retrofitted and reformed to his liking and available for him when he loses the election and his pending ~60 criminal indictments.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-08-05 11:55 AM | Reply

Better health care for prisoners? Good luck getting traction with that.

#8 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-05 12:08 PM | Reply

While remembering that, remember YOU want the government to also run healthcare for the entire country.

Pretty sure private healthcare providers would continue to exist, just like they do in many other nations with universal care.

You do inadvertently make a point though. To the extent quality of care could be impacted by a universal healthcare system in the US, we know Republicans would work tirelessly to make it as miserable and substandard as possible.

#9 | Posted by JOE at 2024-08-05 12:14 PM | Reply

In response to this turmoil, the correction agency in 2018 canceled its $140 million-a-year contract with UConn Health, the vendor that had been tasked for two decades with providing healthcare to incarcerated individuals.

Instead of contracting out health care to another vendor, DOC took over the services itself. Connecticut's prison system is the only one in the country that runs prisoner health care in-house, experts believe.

But lawyers, staff, and advocates claim in the six years since the change, medical care for prisoners has not improved " and some argue the situation has gotten worse.

So, I wonder if you're trying to argue cutting out the evil insurance companies was a failure and that we should invite the insurance company back in because it appears the evil here is the DOC for the State of Conn.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-05 12:15 PM | Reply

It's a slippery slope to advertise great health care for prisoners anyway.

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-05 12:16 PM | Reply

I have argued for years that the death penalty was outlawed de jure in Illinois but it still stands de facto - many die of poor care in County, and many more get moved to hostile blocks (knowingly by the guards), where any reasonable person knows they'll get their ---- kicked in. Often these incidents (internally) are considered "homicide in the public service", or "NHI" - no humans involved.

#12 | Posted by bigalxenos at 2024-08-05 12:26 PM | Reply

Not just prisoners in Connecticut.

#13 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-08-06 05:12 PM | Reply

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