Prison Healthcare Provider Gets Accused Of SHOCKING Inhumanity

"Hector Garcia, a father of four, collapsed three days into his six-day sentence at the Doña Ana County Detention Center, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. When a corrections officer found him, the former baker was crawling on the floor, vomiting, and moaning in pain. His requests for medical care were ignored.

The next day Garcia collapsed again. "Help me!" he yelled, describing his pain as a 10 out of 10. Video footage obtained by Insider shows him wriggling on the ground in agony before corrections officers and medical staff assist him into a wheelchair. "

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[mindyfish]

As a former corrections nurse, I did my best to view my patients as patients and not inmates. Some of these folks have nobody who cares about them and most suffer from mental illness. The lengths these private “healthcare” corporations go to in order to increase profits is absurd and criminal. Thank you for the exposure.

[doneestoner]

I worked in medical care 40 years ago, when it was not run as a business. It saddens me to see it turned into a money-making business.

[shannonsollman]

No worries about others killing us, when we are killing ourselves. My former sister in law just died because of lack of Healthcare treatment for her failing pacemaker. She was seeking out disability, but kept getting denied. She had no health insurance and needed to be seen by a specialist. Her autopsy showed her heart was 5 times enlarged. She was only 40 leaves 2 kids behind. Only in America.

[jimmyBurnett]

That whole system is the problem. Leadership needs to be held responsible.

[endymion]

my dad almost died in jail. he was in on drug charges and had really bad asthma. the medical staff lost his medicine, and he just stopped getting his pills one day. by the next day, he could barely breath and was asking for help. the guards just ignored him, and locked him in his cell for bugging them so much. the following day his breathing was so bad, that he collapsed and was turning blue.

luckily an inmate in a different cell saw him, and raised enough of a ruckus that the guards came to see what the problem was. they whisked him to the nurse, who managed to save his life.

this was like thirty five years ago and in no way involved with this company, but inmates always have and always will be treated like shit. even the ones in there for weed.

[he got out a few months later and sobered up. he knew if he ever went back to jail he'd die there.]

[josephreber]

Healthcare, in all its forms, should be free and accessible for all. It should be made flat-out illegal to make a profit off of any part of it.

[yurdp]

Petty criminals may be easy targets for corrections officers, but holy hell! This is literally cruelty resulting in wrongful deaths.

[mathematicalmuscleman]

The USA is a textbook example of a "sick system". It does not come any better than this example. I assertively "hope" that Australia does not turn into another USA.

[jameslawson]

I am so Sickened by the American so called Healthcare System. We hear these stories over and over and NOTHING Changes.. Greed Over People is The American WAY!

[shauntesofly]

How is this not human rights violation

[beeforeal]

My mother spent a week at a nursing home for rehab. She was supposed to ring her call bell in order to have assistance going to the bathroom. Nobody would show up though and she would have to go it alone anyway. I can't imagine what it would have been like if she absolutely couldn't have managed at all on her own. She wasn't an inmate, this is just how healthcare is everywhere and I don't believe for a minute that there wasn't a lot of deaths during the you know what from neglect. Especially when family wasn't even allowed to visit at all.

[williamfrazier]

The entire medical system in the USA is a bad joke. I moved to Canada in 1967 as a political refugee from the USA and find the care here is not Socialism or Communism but as simply Humanitarian. The biggest thing you could do to reunite your country is to provide that kind of care down there.

[amisanthrope]

LMAO! I did 4 years & there are bags & boxes in the kitchen's chow hall labeled in large, bold black print that says "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION". No one cares about inmates at all. They are seen as "a product" by the state much like live stock or slaves. But all of these people...well, not all of them, , really. There really are many people in prison who are falsely accused & convicted. They are a product & law enforecment works diligently to make sure they stay over capacity. Whether or not you're actually guilty is not so important to them. Only that their institutions are full of bodies & they get ridiculous kick-backs per conviction.

[cherbear]

I was a prison nurse..i left bc of the way they treated the inmates..wasn't there long..was young n new nurse and had no idea who to report things to and was strongly encouraged to "leave it alone"..i called out sick on a sunday with zero intentions of going back and on monday one of the nurses called to tell me i was locked out, meaning fired..gee, could it be they thought I'd cause em trouble? It wasnt Corizon

[annharlan]

Imagine that privatized prisons and privatized health care providers are cutting corners that cost people their lives. Prison is not supposed to be a death sentence.

[Wildraiinbow]

I've been to jail and seen psychotic nurses in the infirmary taunting mentally ill inmates. There were human feces all over the walls and floors along with gigantic cockroaches. The food was always spoiled. I would witness many times when people would have seizures without any help. One girl broke her ankle and didn't get hospitalized, so it fused together. She limped for the rest of her life. I've heard of people dying because the assholes wouldn't give them their medicine. Psychos

[ryanmalone]

As Americans it seems we’ve lost, or at least are losing, our humanity.

[jennmcdavitt]

I was in prison with women that had scabies, some for over 10 months, that went untreated bc the medical staff just didn't care. Then finally a guard got it and they realized the inmates had it. By then somewhere between 50 and 100 women had these bugs under their skin. The treatment can make you more suseptable to cancer. It's dangerous but the guards didn't care until they realized it could effect them

[karenscheltema]

You should do a report about private prisons and how their motivation to make a profit leads to prisoner maltreatment and how it incentivizes inmate recidivism.

[elisabethpine]

Thank you for addressing this. This is