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A commercial firm named Wexford provides what passes as medical care in certain unfortunate state prisons. Profits are important to commercial firms. They are much less interested in prisoners.
Although we focus on Pennsylvania's prison horrors, we recently received the following email about a western atrocity. It may interest you, but we can make no warrant for accuracy. "Jody B. Mapp, age 47, died October 31, 1998 at the hands of Wexford staff in Wyoming State Penitentiary, Rawlins, Wyoming from neglect. He had quadruple bypass surgery in April of 1998. He suffered from chest pains before and since. His meds were denied [to] him. He also suffered from hypertension and diabetes. His insulin was denied [to] him. Dr. Claudette Zaremba was [the] last known physician in charge for Wexford there. I learned [that] she was licensed in California until 1999, but no known records can be found for practicing in Wyoming. Medical malpractice is at play and has been for a long time. Jody's only crime was forgery so he could eat. Was that a crime to die for?" We certainly encourage suits against any and all prison malpractice. If the operations were a little less profitable, maybe they would be made non-profit. Information from MANY prisoners in Pennsylvania is that the withdrawal of medication and thereby the increase of profit margins, is a very common practice for Wexford. A Wexford doctor, one of those third world imports, recently cut the asthma medication essential for the health of one of our regular prisoner correspondents. |
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