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Although we admit a strong bias against Pennsylvania's Attorney General, Mike Fisher, we report recent loudly boasted arrests by his office. We must also admit we have digressed from our core interests. This article is not about prison per se. It is unlikely that Fisher would protect real prisoners.

The Polk Center is an institution in Northern Pennsylvania. It is operated much like a prison by the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare. The place imprisons about 565 mentally retarded adults and employs about twice that number of state bureaucrats, mostly quasi-medical. Six of the doctors employed at the institution have been charged with very serious crimes.

Doctor
Cesar Miranda has been charged in the death of a 62 year-old patient, Eugene Rozgonyi. The patient died in 1997 of what is now described as a bowel obstruction. It is unknown if the obstruction was caused by trauma or violence, or what.

Another doctor, Hyunchel Shin, is also accused of manslaughter. Apparently a patient died of an improperly treated or untreated brain injury.

Four other doctors:

David Byers,
Louka Makkar,
Samir Moussa and
Donald Stitt

have been charged with various counts of assault and neglect. Reportedly, the doctors systematically abused their patients with what amounts to cruelty.

The doctors assert their innocence and justify such practices as using staplers on helpless, mentally impaired persons. For all intents and purposes, the victims were/are prisoners.

Pennsylvania Doctors Arrested In Patient Deaths

By: John St. Crox