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there's a bombshell report out today and think progress
detail ng a lawsuit against the Arizona prison system
apparently the 10 prisons in Arizona
are acting like the year is 1527
and they can just brutalize every single prisoner thats in their control
quote more than 33,000
inmates are filing a class-action lawsuit against the state
for being denied proper medical and mental health care
while behind bars so listen to this
in the scene list abuse and neglect the prisons
failed to hire enough medical staff
and they didn't care that they failed to hire
enough medical staffthey denied inmates access to
medical specialists that they needed
okay so not just like hey we need to have an opthamologist era podiatrist or
whatever
a surgeon brain surgeon but
because something might happen not all people needed specific surgeries
from specialist they needed them there
and they didn't have them there okay and they did make accommodations when they
knew that they needed them
they refused to fill drug prescriptions
that's particularly *** up
when you know somebody has a problem whether it's physical or mental
and you don't refilled prescriptions they even withheld
basic mental health care to inmates suffering from suicidal thoughts
and confirmed mental disorders quote
prisoners were being forced too wait years
to receive treatment for health problems like fractured bones
and broken teeth and inmates were often held in solitary confinement
in small windowless cells with the lights left on 24
hours a day okay that's torture that's torture
you can't do that to people have you ever had a fractured bone before I had a
hairline fracture my clavicle
what most but one more people think they're *** brains my life
it was incredible it was incredible how bad it was
okay which %uh people with fractured bones the didn't get medical treatment
three years they waited for years to receive treatment
that's torture you can't do that to people but it gets much worse quote
one inmate died from cancer after his pleas for medical attention were ignored
for two years after his liver swelled to four times
its natural size a pregnant prisoner was left alone in solitary confinement
while she suffered a miscarriage after an inmate suffered a heart attack
and was told to wait several days for a follow-up medical appointment
he had another heart attack and died the next day
a severely mentally ill
in me bled to death after his second suicide attempt
as prison guards watched all on
and failed to intervene this is this has to be historic levels of abuse
according to The Arizona Republic at least
30 7 inmates needlessly died. over the past several years
as a result love the neglect and the paper also reported that the suicide
rate in Arizona's prisons
is sixty percent higher than the national average
and handle those suicides occur among prisoners
who are subjected to solitary confinement
wow man well
look I oftentimes talk on the show about how
on the issue love a criminal justice
I'm a moderate I'm not a progressive on the issue a criminal justice
okay and I've had many instances where the people in the audience really
vehemently disagree with me so one example is
the European Parliament decided
arms are the top court in European Union decided
that life in prison without the possibility of parole
constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and it's not allowed so
everybody in prison in Europe at some point or another has the
the optional may be getting out that go before committee or whatever
and they have the possibility of maybe getting out I disagree with that
I think there are some people that you should pretty much lock them up and
throw away the key
because they demonstrated that they're beyond any hope
love ever getting back ever ever ever and we've covered specific stories where
I think that applies people who *** flush the intestines have little
children that they killed down the toilet in the eat there remains
okay somebody who can only *** as their stabbing a little girls
you know it's so many examples are just *** monsters that have
horrible problems that they're just these crazy mentality
and those people I don't think they should ever have the chance of getting
out
so look I have credentials as a guy *** and Braddock
the the norwegian terrorist to kill children was it like eighty people he
killed most of them children
this *** complaining that my rights are being violated because I don't have
access to are better video game system
they only give me a ps2 and i won a ps3
absent or pull my hair out like yea role
its insane to let that guy have you know any level of comfort
I don't wanna torture him but I don't want him to be living a positively
happy environment we can play video games or watch TV and work out in all
these
awesome stuff like I want him to feel
punishment for what he did some people are beyond rehabilitation
so look I have bona fide credentials as a moderate on the issue a criminal
justice
don't get me wrong I think the US system is waging a brutal we go way too far in
the other direction
but I'm somewhere in the middle okay
only talk about this right here the problem is
we be calm the criminal goals what don't people get about that
when you have the prison guards acting this way no mother *** you are not
the law
you're not the law you're not the authority figures you're not the good
guys dipshits
you are the bad guys you are just as bad as the people that are locked up behind
those bars and I've no problem saying that what so ever
if you could look at somebody committing suicide in a *** do anything about it
you're a criminal okay you'll do anything about it
if you could so I could tell you I have fractured bones I need medical attention
you say *** you may be in two years we'll take you
your *** criminal okay all these different examples of all
these area somebody has a heart attack you don't give the medical treatment
a pregnant prisoner miss carries on the floor in solitary you don't give a ***
you know moved
you are *** criminals and you know what
is beyond unacceptable because you're doing it with our *** tax dollars
okay
good people %uh Barroso know their money is good funding you
for you to act like these insane criminals
again like we're living in the 1500 or some *** we believe in this level love
this insane typeof criminal justice where it's not even justice you just
become criminals yourself
okay that's the problem we don't want to become the devils they were trying to
avoid
and we are becoming that