While researching this prison, I came across this gem: http://www.hanfordsentinel.com/blogs/?p=23 About how prisoners think they have special rights. Heh. This guys spends 5 minutes in a prison and thinks he knows the whole story. You know, I have never in my life felt like I wasn't free. But I can pretty much guess how awful it would feel to not be able to leave a certain place, filled with seedy strangers where my quarters wouldn't suit a dog on the outside. I can take a stab at how it might feel to not be able to see my family, my son, my friends and on the odd occasion when they come to see me, be unable to touch them and then have to say goodbye again for another long stretch of time. I can try to imagine the horrors of the hole, and how it must feel to have to fill 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with limited and dull activities. I might be able to wrap my mind around what it would feel like to be in constant fear and not have one single other person in a population of 5000 that gives a shit about me. I gag at the thought of what the food in prison tastes like, as it has been described to me on many occasions - the most horrifying of which is something my friend actually ingested that was nicknamed "railroad tracks". I personally know how fucking awful it feels to not be able to hear someone I love's voice when I want to because calls cost $20 a pop and no matter which phone company you're dealing with, the assholes regularly and randomly block lines just to remind us he's in the joint and no one gives a fuck. I personally know how terrifying it is to be on the phone with someone you love and hear what you think is shit jumping off and being afraid for his life (although it turned out, he was just lending someone mayonnaise in a highly animated way, haha). Being able to imagine these things and trying to put myself in their shoes, even if only briefly, is enough for me to know these inmates don't expect "special rights".
Oh and this line just makes my blood boil: "Inmates get better healthcare than anyone reading this blog." Yes, I'm sure your 5 minute jaunt has given you enough insight to be able to make this sweeping generalization, but here's reality, asshole: My friend was having dizzy spells and suffered from asthma and desperately needed to see a doctor. He waited months before he was given any medical attention. Also:
Anyway. Back to Corcoran.
Corcoran State Prison is home to Charlie Manson, the infamous cult leader, as well as Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby Kennedy's assassin. It is located in a rural area of California and has a capacity of 2,916 inmates, but houses over 5000. Corcoran has a hospital with 75 beds that services inmates from other prisons as well.
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Oh and this line just makes my blood boil: "Inmates get better healthcare than anyone reading this blog." Yes, I'm sure your 5 minute jaunt has given you enough insight to be able to make this sweeping generalization, but here's reality, asshole: My friend was having dizzy spells and suffered from asthma and desperately needed to see a doctor. He waited months before he was given any medical attention. Also:
As a result, the daily "pill call" for inmates, for example, is sometimes run by nurses who are incompetent or overworked, he said, and the backlog of prisoners waiting for medical attention can exceed 400 cases.And if you scroll down just a little on that page you'll find this Einstein's comment:
From philly.com
Brian Tetrault was 44 when he was led into a dim county jail cell in upstate New York in 2001, charged with taking some skis and other items from his ex-wife's home. A former nuclear scientist who had struggled with Parkinson's disease, he began to die almost immediately, and state investigators would later discover why: The jail's medical director had cut off all but a few of the 32 pills he needed each day to quell his tremors.
Over the next 10 days, Mr. Tetrault slid into a stupor, soaked in his own sweat and urine. But he never saw the jail doctor again, and the nurses dismissed him as a faker. After his heart finally stopped, investigators said, correction officers at the Schenectady jail doctored records to make it appear he had been released before he died.
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By Ray Ray on Apr 4, 2008"Most of them committing gruesome crimes"?? I wish people would educate themselves, seriously. This about as absurd as the guy insisting he has a pet unicorn. Anyone with one eye half open is aware enough to know that the majority of all crimes committed in the USA are non-violent, and the majority of those are drug-related. If that's gruesome for ya buddy, leaving the house must be a fucking chore.
California is too liberal with inmates incarcerated here. Inmates are convicted felons with most of them committing gruesome crimes. They should not have any rights, what about the victims, they are the biggest losers. Any suggestions anyone….
Anyway. Back to Corcoran.
Corcoran State Prison is home to Charlie Manson, the infamous cult leader, as well as Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby Kennedy's assassin. It is located in a rural area of California and has a capacity of 2,916 inmates, but houses over 5000. Corcoran has a hospital with 75 beds that services inmates from other prisons as well.
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50% of the population at Corcoran State prison are there for life with
no chance for parole. Others spend long terms in this facility before
they have any chance of parole. The documentary also pointed out that
50% of those paroled commit crimes and are sent back.
An Inside Look at Corcoran State Prison
In March of 1994, Ronald Herrera, a 58-year-old dialysis patient, allegedly "kicked and screamed for hours" in his cell without any intervention before he eventually bled to death from an opening in his medical shunt, according to the Los Angeles Times. Herrera's cell window was papered with toilet tissue soaked in blood, the toilet was full of blood, and the floor was slick with what one guard described as "raspberry Kool-Aid."
Corcoran State Prison Profile
A front-page article by Mark Arax in the August 1996 Los Angeles Times claimed that COR was "the most troubled of the 32 state prisons." At the time, COR officers had shot and killed more inmates "than any prison in the country" in COR's eight years of existence; based on interviews and documents, Arax concluded that many shootings of prisoners were "not justified" and that in some cases "the wrong inmate was killed by mistake." Furthermore, the article alleged that "officers... and their supervisors staged fights between inmates" during "gladiator days." In November 1996, CBS Evening News broadcast "video footage of an inmate fatally shot by guards" at COR in 1994; this death "spawned a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of alleged inmate abuses by guards."Jobs available at Corcoran
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