Reportedly, ACLU staff were shaken and appalled when they found out there was only ONE full-time Provider during the week, and one part-time Provider on the weekends, for THIRTEEN HUNDRED and EIGHTY women! No Care Naphcare is getting worse, not better.
So many women with life-threatening illnesses are denied care. Treatments and appointments are canceled without notice. Medical grievances have skyrocketed, but they don’t expedite treatment…. they only pave the way for litigation if the inmate can afford it. Most can’t…. so they suffer.
An insider within the department quoted one of the Providers as saying, ” I’m thinking of quitting because I can’t treat my patients the way they ought to be treated. Naphcare and this administration don’t care if these inmates live or die.”
The two-day visit by the ACLU turned up serious issues, and heartbreaking stories to impart to Judge Silver this month. For-profit vendors like Naphcare, and the prison machine of the DOC, will never give inmates quality health care. That will only be achieved by RECEIVERSHIP which means the Feds take over the system.
Google and research what great things were achieved in California state prisons when they went into receivership!