In June, 2002 I ran across a web site called Surviving the System.  I have been involved with helping addicts and alcoholics recover.  I have known  a few people who were in prison.  I had also been charged with a felony and came close to going to prison myself.  I did spend a short while in the county jail.  One thing I realized was that everyone there was poor.  If I was not poor I would not have committed the crime I was there for.  

I started researching for a book on prisons and prison conditions.  Before I knew it I was spending 40 hours a week on The Injustice System.  I have done a lot of research using the search engines to find links for my link pages.  I also joined  a lot of related groups.  A couple of weeks ago I found The Jeff Dicks Medical Coalition.  I was moved by the medical malpractice of the prison system.  In some cases it seems to be murder of convicts who become ill.  It makes me think that there are those in the system who enjoy making people suffer.  They figure no one will complain because these men and women are criminals who have been put  in prison so society can forget about them.

There are many innocent men and women in prison not because of a crime they committed but because of a crime they did not commit.  For some reason they were chosen to suffer for a crime someone else committed.  They are sent to prison by the lies and misuse of evidence.  The evidence that can me crafted to make them look guilty  is used while the evidence that shows that they are innocent is left out.  The police and prosecutors can not do it alone.  They need the help of the defense lawyers and in many cases the judges.  In most cases it is the good old boy network at work.  

There are also many guilty men and women in prison.  There are those who are basically good people who got caught up with the wrong people or were desperate to feed there families.  There are also basically bad people who not only belong in prison but also should never get out.

No matter why they are there and no matter how bad they are they all deserve medical care that will keep them alive and well. Those who are not well deserve the medication to help them survive and not suffer.  Just as we have bad lawyers who prosecute, judge and defend the inmates but we have bad doctors who are incompetent or just like to make prisoners suffer. Maybe these doctors and lawyers get a thrill playing God and ignoring the ethics of their professions.

Jeff Dicks was a victim of the injustice system.  He was killed by the system of neglect.  The sad thing is that many of these so called professional people and many of the guards who neglect and abuse the convicts are as bad as or worse than worst of the convicts and should be inmates themselves.  A guard I know of said that the only ones that should be in prison are the ones that go home at night.

Jeff's story and many other stories are told at the parent organizations site.  Click the link below the banner for the Jeff Dicks Medical Coalition.

If you have any stories about the medical malpractice and abuse e-mail me.  Maybe we can help.  At the parent site there are links and contact information to the chapters in other states and countries.  If your state or country is not there you may want to start a chapter.

There will be many true horror stories about the medical abuse in the prisons around the country linked to this  page.  I will be adding as time goes by and when there are successful resolutions to the abuse they to will be added.

My email address is eazylee@juno.com

Lee W. Gaylord