[Wells5]

Vermont convict farmed out to a PA prison dies of what he claims in his diary is medical neglect.


Dying Inmate's Diary Reveals Lack of Medical Care


See also


https://www.city-data.com/forum/penns...ical-care.html


With the humongous tax burden imposed on the citizens of Vermont, why can't the state build more and better prisons?

[cgregor]

The first reason we can't is that they cost money, and our tax system is manifestly unjust. We could have a top tax rate of 35% (which is nominally the top federal tax rate; actual is 18%), and it could provide the same amount of revenue as our 3% / 9% system does, BUT provide tax breaks of 65 to 100% for everybody making $1 million or less. We're not contemplating a change, however.

The second reason is that it costs well over $26,000 per year to incarcerate someone in Vermont. While the public prison system has all the advantages over private prisons (like Pennsylvania, where he died, and Arizona, where another Vermonter died about two weeks earlier), it's cheaper to ship them someplace where they don't get rehabilitation, medical care, reasonably good food and professional guards. Again, it's the money thing.

Finally, a large percentage of these inmates are in for drug dealing or use-- if we were sensible, we'd decriminalize almost all of them and regulate and protect the growers and their market. I could go on....

[Wells5]

The Camp Hill prison is run by the state and houses 3500 inmates. He may have been sent there because it supposedly has a sex offender treatment program. I don't know how long Vermont has been farming out their prisoners to other states, but as we used to say in the 60s, it's a cop-out.


I hope that the family of the deceased sues the Commonwealth of PA for medical malpractice and the State of Vermont for wrongful death or some such other tort.

[skeddy]

he was terminally ill, let em die

[Wells5]

Originally Posted by skeddy

he was terminally ill, let em die

^ that from the ultra liberal State of Vermont? Nobody deserves to die in agony as the VT prisoner did.

[cgregor]

Forty-one point two percent of the people in Springfield voted for Trump. Skeddy could have been one of them.

Vermont has all the family values available that will result in children becoming narrow-minded, hostile, idiocentric adults, and there are some families that live by them.

We are just lucky the great majority of Vermonters are willing to do what it takes to give those children the love, education and emotional support they don't get in the home.