Incarcerated Healthcare by Joel Aaron Burrell

There’s pros and cons to the healthcare of the prison system. The pros are that it’s easily accessible to all inmates. The cons are acquiring the appropriate level of care deemed for your medical condition at the time it is causing you problems.

Sometimes the medical provider for your facility will determine a treatment plan based on the cost of the treatment plan versus the available resources of the state. However, this can render medical malpractice or deliberate indifference if patients are denied accessible healthcare because of costs instead of the seriousness of health conditions.

The grievance procedure is useless, usually rendering the same results because of the cost of healthcare expenses or medical staff trying to cover-up for correctional officer’s use of excessive force. Then Virginia Department of Corrections rarely investigates inmates claims of medical malpractice or deliberate indifference, by rubber stamping the Institutional Ombudsman approval of medical employees’ medical malpractice and deliberate indifference.

The only remedy is State Tort and U.S. 1983 claims. But even in civil litigation granting a timely injunction may be difficult in a health crisis.

Sometimes inmates are denied access to medical care just because of their criminal offenses, institutional offenses, or misjudgment of their medical condition. I’m more angry at these reasons for denying healthcare than costs because they have either no correlation to the patient’s medical state or misdiagnosis is based on personal opinion not derived from testing nor medical examination.

I’m suspicious of being poisoned prior to being housed at Keen Mountain Correctional Center. The medical staff at River North Correctional Center and Keen Mountain Correctional Center continued to refuse to order CT scan, X-Ray of neck/head, and toxicology testing to determine if my body contains toxins.

This what happens when you fight against oppression, standing up for your civil rights, and persecuted for Jesus’s sake. This is to be expected to happen to anyone who fit that description in the above sentence.

Then civil rights and human rights organizations minimize representing inmates in medical malpractice or deliberate indifference claims because civil actions are difficult to win for prisoners. In the alternative they may not want to oppose the government for a felon that may benefit financially off the government errors.

Therefore, Pro Se self a representation for prisoners is the easiest way to get retribution for medical malpractice and deliberate indifference claims. However, its more scrutinized by the government who’ll use clerks to discard favorable complaints or refuse to grant subpoena duces tecums for discovery and injunctions to force the medical provider to provide prisoners with appropriate medical care.

The best option is to have outside support contact Department of Corrections, news media, and civil rights and human rights organizations. People usually will react positively to outside influences.

Joel Aaron Burrell #1201708
Keen Mountain Correctional Center
PO Box 860
Oakwood, VA  24631
https://www.jpay.com

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