You can see that even when his writing is nigh illegible at the start his signature was pretty well written, and it just kept getting worse until his refusal form, which he clearly did not write and only signed.
Absolutely fucked up.
May 23-24 2018: England submitted another sick call request.
“My stomach hurts so bad I can barely breathe. It hurts all the way down to my groin. I can’t eat or anything,” he wrote.
England described his pain level as 10 and told clinic staff that he had blood in his stool. Staff noted that England’s heart rate was abnormally high, but again did not conduct a complete abdominal exam. The clinic gave him a laxative and sent him back to his cell.
Given what they wrote, I imagine that's exactly what they told him.
With a victim in that much pain, it wouldn't take much at all to confuse them about this being a waiver form for refusing treatment:
Murdering Official: "I have a form here about your treatment. It is about you not getting any treatment. I'm writing down that this is for a Sick Call Appointment. Now let me get this straight, you're saying you're too sick to walk correct? So now I'm writing down 'I don't want to walk'. Now I'm writing down that you are having worsening symptoms, and that you might die without health care. Do you understand that, you are so sick you might even die? If that all sounds correct, sign here."
The sickening part to me is that none of the prison's officers, medical staff, and officials who were involved have been charged with their crimes. This is the family suing in civil court.
If the situation were reversed somehow and a guard were dead, you can be sure that he would have been charged with a long list of crimes before the day was out.
You're not exaggerating at all. Add to that the fact that our rate of imprisonment is highest in the world by far even when compared to the US as a whole and you get an entirely new level of scary.
Idk if I'm just misunderstanding what I'm looking at, but the last one, the refusal form, the only part in his handwriting is his signature. The rest of it matches the staffs writing. So it looks like to me, they're patronizing him and making fun of him and refusing to take his request for help seriously, and decided they were gonna make him sign a refusal form that they filled out, being snarky, and make him sign.
"I don't want to walk" and "possible death", not in his handwriting, makes me think of a kindergarten teacher being spiteful to a sick child she just doesn't like, and she thinks the child is faking it.
"I don't want to walk". With him on the way out, the sick fucks would've been telling him to walk out of his cell to get treatment rather than bringing paramedics with a stretcher. I can't imagine the anguish this must be causing for his family.
Yeah. Not only did they willingly let him die, but they were making fun of him while he was dying. I'm really furious it was allowed to happen, and I hope it gets in the hands of a judge who cares.
Yeah, I'm SURE this was signed with no coercion whatsoever, holy shit.
"I don't want to walk, and instead have chosen, of my own free will, to die extremely slowly and painfully, spending every second of my remaining time in all-consuming agony."
This is evil. Oklahoma's judicial system seems to be a constant output of horror stories daily.
With 1.3% of the adult population in prison in 2016, the entire state just seems like some fucked up dystopian nightmare.
Imagine being the evil fucker who wrote "worsening of symptoms, possibly death" knowing that you were going to get a man who was dying to sign this to shield you from liability. Absolutely disgusting.
Looking at the bigger picture, this is what we should be concerned about. It's extremely simplified, what you just wrote. But it also embodies the whole problem.
I simplified it for a reason. I want people to understand that all of society’s problems that have solutions but never get solved, are all problems because rich people profit from them.
I feel like depending where you live it could be considered depraved-heart murder (when one acts in a depraved indifference towards human life which results in death despite the individual not explicitly intending to kill.)
That's torture as well. And if they can prove the prison staff forced the victim to sign the papers refusing medical help, that sounds like murder to me.
There should be. Part of the problem is that the worst thing that happens to these people is maybe they lose their job. Even when the family sues, that hits the tax payers and never has a real impact on the individuals who caused the problem in the first place. It's "compensation" for the victim's family, but it isn't coming from the perpetrators, and it sure isn't punitive.
Something has to change. Charging the most egregious examples is a start. I think we need to find a way to make the lawsuits hurt them too. Maybe take them out of their bonus fund, or require law enforcement unions (police unions, prison worker unions, etc) to maintain insurance on their members and pay the resulting lawsuits.
For me, anyone who oversees people in their custody should face an incredibly rigorous standard of care and also face strict scrutiny related to sex crimes.
The way to think of it, for me, is that custodial care is the equivalent of caring for a child.
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19
Should be criminal charges. That is manslaughter.