MTWT - Lucy | March 31, 2009
Mr. Q’s records contain very little information. He has an abdominal hernia, most of his colon was removed and he suffers from depression. There is no clinical history in this chart.
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Review of Medical Records from Ely State Prison Dr. William Noel
At the request of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties, I reviewed [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 31, 2009
Mr. G is 45 years old and he suffers from an enlarged prostate and difficulty urinating. He is on medications to shrink the size of his prostate, but he must be given a urology consult to ensure that he does not have prostate cancer. Without an ultrasound and biopsy it is impossible to know if [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
By Coyote Sheff
Prisons are not here to help us. Prisons are not here to rehabilitate. US prisons do not stop, deter, or prevent crime and they never will. The people in power can continue to lock people up and they can keep building more prisons and crime is still going to happen, because we [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
Mr. Z suffers from HIV, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, two spinal injuries and a botched back surgery resulting in chronic, debilitating pain, and kidney disease. In addition, even though a RMF doctor ordered a consultation with a nephrologist due to the alarmingly high protein in his urine, that consultation never occurred and he was sent back [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
John Snow has severe degenerative hip disease and requires surgery. An orthopedist recommended hip surgery for Mr. Snow years ago but this procedure was denied as “not life threatening.” If he is not given surgery; Mr. Snow’s bones will eventually wear through his acetabulae, which are the large sockets at the base of the hip [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
David Riker suffers from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Mr. Riker’s conditions were all extensively documented by the California Department of Corrections, including successful treatment regimens. These records were sent to ESP and NDOC’s Director of Medical Services by the Federal Defender – twice. Despite this, Mr. Riker does not receive any [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
Patrick Cavanaugh, was an insulin dependent diabetic, who lived in the Ely State Prison infirmary for at least two years before his agonizing death on April 10, 2006. Immediately after his death he was transported to a funeral home. There is no record of an autopsy or a mortality review in his file.
The cause of [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 30, 2009
Go to school, make something of yourself and stay out of trouble. Is it a cliché or a myth? Schools in Nevada are trying to find ways to cut costs without harming the education of the students. One small town’s educational services have been hit pretty hard in the budget cuts. It’s not that they [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 29, 2009
A Zine by Coyote Sheff
Something as beautiful as freedom; something that good; something that great could never be free. It seems like it always comes with a price. Trust me when I tell you that it’s a high price we have to pay for our freedom, especially if you come from the gutter, born into [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 29, 2009
Mr. B has severe seizure disorder and must wear a helmet to prevent head injury from seizures. This helmet has actually broken during the violence of his seizures. After his helmet breaks, it frequently takes ESP staff months and months before getting him a new one, regardless of repeated pleas by Mr. B and the [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 29, 2009
Mr. A is an insulin dependent diabetic. Incredibly, like Mr. Cavanaugh, his insulin was stopped for no reason, and apparently without a physician’s order. As a result of this egregious treatment, Mr. A went into a ketoacidotic coma on March 20, 2006 and was hospitalized in Ely until March 23, 2006. It is [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 29, 2009
By Senator Jim Webb ~ Publication Date: 03/29/2009
America’s criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. Its irregularities and inequities cut against the notion that we are a society founded on fundamental fairness. Our failure to address this problem has caused the nation’s prisons to burst their seams with [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 28, 2009
On March 24, 2009, Federal Judge Larry Hicks granted in small part and denied in huge part, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss the case brought by Cavanaugh’s family against defendants E.K. McDaniel, Debra Brooks, Theodore D’Amico (former NDOC medical director), Robert Bannister (current NDOC medical director), Steven MacArthur, Max Carter (former physician’s assistant [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 27, 2009
March 27, 2009
A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging prison and medical staff deliberately withheld medical treatment from the former manager of the Coasters music group, leading to his slow and painful death from gangrene while on death row in Ely.
U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks, in an order filed Tuesday in Reno, said [read more...]
MTWT - Lucy | March 25, 2009
On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears below. Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and [read more...]
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