Comments on: Florida Prison Health Care Brings Back Old Worries

By: Judy Martin

Judy Martin — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:38:45 +0000

My son is at RMC west. He has HCV, as many people do. But I feel if the state is going to send you to their facility, and you are a ward of the state, then the “State” should be responsible for your “healthcare, nutrition, other physical and physiological” needs too. Most inmates don’t trust the medical staff. Due to the lack of care many, many inmates die or are disabled due to the (lack of) healthcare. They will not treat an inmate, if they’re gonna have to wait for a dime. If you look at the deaths, they were all due to heart attack, cancer, or natural causes???? How about “No Healthcare”! Isn’t it enough to pay for your wrongs??!! Send their children, husband, or wife………it would all be different!

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:04:46 +0000

I have read these comments and feel sick to my stomach. There is a definitive difference between those incarcerated, who have no way to obtain private healthcare and those who are not, who have the ability to obtain healthcare. These inmates DO NOT get free healthcare. They typically pay between $5-$10 to see a doctor, and a copay for some medications. This burden is shifted to the families, as they expected to help those incarcerated. Many people in jail/prison are there for VICTIMLESS crimes, meaning there is no member of society out there suffering from their action. Those who a repeat offender in many instances do not go back for the same crime. WE as a society sit back with our pompous judgements spouting Christian ideals, however WE do not live the lives we speak. EVERYONE at ONE TIME or ANOTHER have violated a law, willingly or not. SO STOP SPOUTING YOUR IGNORANCE. There are Constitutional rights that apply to ALL CITIZENS… thats right ALL. We sit out here throwing a fit about gun control because it violates our rights, we talk about prejudice and racism…. some of your comments are prejudice and racist. We ban historical artifacts due to sensitivity issues, but we want to refuse basic human rights? We live in the most sue happy state in the union, and you would risk litigation that cost you more money because you do not educate yourself on all the facts… What about those who sit in prison for years and come to find out they are innocent… Really! Also a lot of these expenses come from guards abusing, even murdering these inmates… is that legal or fair? EDUCATE yourself, understand the principles before you speak. Explore resources if you have no healthcare. Medicaid is funded by taxpayer dollars, some of those people have $3 copays… are they wrong for that as well…

By: chris in Molino

chris in Molino — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:13:33 +0000

@Molinoman
Sorry bout that, i was thinking of Molino Jim aka Yankee Jim

By: chris in Molino

chris in Molino — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:41:59 +0000

@Crystal
No, molino (yankee) man is providing false information again. The FDOC performs procedures like that at RMC or “Lake Butler” as they always have. They do have whole floors at a local hospital in Jacksonville. But they can put you to sleep and do minor procedures at the prison. However, even at the hospital, the doctors are contracted by the state. Just like nurses, if their not ok with what DOC wants, they wont have the contract. It is just like that.

By: Molinoman

Molinoman — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:05:40 +0000

Crystal- operations, even ones as routine as moving skin cancer spots are done in hospitals contracted by the DOC. So whoever you know got hacked up got it at a normal hospital.

By: chris in Molino

chris in Molino — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:51:46 +0000

@Marcos Watch
They’d never do that because they have control enough now. Nowdays you’d be hardpressed to even see a fight at some prison. I spent eleven years in FDOC, five of them at FSP in Starke. In at 15 in 1994 out at 26 in 2005. Show me a gaurd with that attitude and I’ll show you a gaurd with a patch missing from his skull from a #5 master lock. Being ugly to someone cause they’re in solitary (CM 1) and think they cant get to you ? I’ll show you a gaurd with a sharpened paperclip in his neck shot from a blow-gun made from newspaper. Then again, those are the old days. I will say this : i may have made stupid choices which I’ll pay for forever. But prison is just an experiment, a prelude to what society will soon be. I see it everyday. And its nothing that will be forced on society, they’ll ask for it, guised as protection. Sheep to the slaughter baby..

By: g-

g- — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:26:00 +0000

I know people who go to work everyday and can’t afford to go to the Doctor…..so why, why, why do I care?

By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:07:51 +0000

I have a friend that is in a Florida prison and he thinks he has skin cancer but will not go to the doctor provided. Why?? Because the men that have gone to the Prison Doctor for skin cancer have horrible scars from where the doctor cut on them and did not take care with what they were doing.

I realize the men and women that are locked up was convicted of a crime, but they should still be treated like human beings.

By: Marcos Watch

Marcos Watch — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:23:59 +0000

Oh well! Don’t go to prison and you won’t risk shotty healthcare! Keep it shotty. Let it act as a deterrent! Hire only Combat/ military Vets as CO’s and train them in MMA and let them run the prisons!

Won’t be a cake walk anymore now will it???

By: chris in Molino

chris in Molino — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:30:32 +0000

Yes, the solution is to stop making money off the taxpayer. Stop sending people to prison for minor offenses that can be dealt with in community settings. FDOC is a business. They want it to be bigger. It’s no different than the tax collecter, building permit for a backyard shed, or unreasonable FWC rules. Every govt entity is now solely designed to get a dollar from your pocket. No ? Then why, when an illegal immigrant commits a crime in FL does he first serve his sentance before being deported ? There are many. They’ll tell you this privatization of healthcare just recently occured. The only thing recent is Corizon. Wexford has been treating medical, dental, and mental health in south florida prisons for almost fifteen years. Medical is high also because of reasons not described. Who do you think gets experimental procedures and medications before FDA approval. What, you think these huge companies don’t prey on someone who has your level of rights ? They get the latest greatest dr ugs long before you ever heard of em. FDOC doctors used to routinely cut off the wrong limb during amputation at Lake Butler. Please save your righteous indignation for a family member who has a brush with the law. If you don’t have one already, your in the minority.