Prison Abuse

http://www.epilepsy.com/discussion/987472 Hi Phylis, The Federal Complaint about "Daughters Blame Sheriff Arpaio for Dad's Death" involving the AED Keppra, finally appeared in one search as: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/08/Arpaio.pdf As a secondarily generalized tonic-clonic resulted in the frontal subdural hematoma that gave me my moniker "3Hours2Live", the possibly fatal attempted "dumping" (page 9 line 20), after a "man down" (page 6, line 10), reflects the reality status of daydreams of Human Rights in the USA and in the State of Arizona. (Abrupt discontinuation of Keppra can increase the frequency of seizures.) page 5, lines 10-11. Mr. Ph*****pi continued to have “witnessed” seizures when his Keppra was not given throughout his period of incarceration. CHS also had Mr. Ph*****pi’s records from CIGNA medical group documenting his seizure disorder. page 5, lines 19-21. At his intake on April 6, 2009, Mr. Ph*****pi reported that he had a history of seizures and was taking Keppra. Defendant J. A***** noted that Mr. Ph*****pi appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Mr. Ph*****pi was at high risk for alcohol withdrawal, but Defendant J. A***** did not refer him for assessment or treatment, or otherwise make provision for his medication and safety. page 5, lines 22-26. Rather, shortly after 10:00 a.m. on April 7, an unknown intake officer assigned Mr. Ph*****pi to Release Tank 1. Release Tank 1 has concrete floors, walls and barriers, constituting a particular danger to persons suffering from seizures. page 6, lines 1-3. Ultimately, a “man down” was called around 11:30 a.m. when inmates banged on the cell door to attract the attention of detention officers. page 6, lines 10-11. In his call seeking medical transportation, Defendant Mc***** made it explicitly clear that the County was not to be billed for the medical services. page 7, lines 7-8. Upon admission, Mr. Ph*****pi had a Glasgow Coma Scale of 4 and was found to have a massive subdural hematoma with very poor neurological prognosis. Life support was discontinued on April 8, 2009. page 7, lines 18-20. Utilizing a “quick release” procedure to dump inmates with significant and emergent medical conditions so that any emergency medical provision would become the financial responsibility of the “released” inmate rather than the County, even if the medical condition was sustained within the Maricopa County Jail. Page 9, lines 20-24. Tadzio //http://www.find-docs.com/keppra-2010.html http://www.meddean.luc.edu/depts/bioethics/Files/pdf/innovations/Team4_summary2010.pdf

http://www.epilepsy.com/blogentry/994070 Hi Phylis, Another blog at epilepsy-dot-com cites police response to seizures in public places. Some legal cases filed/pending recently include (the fox59 one include more relevant viewers' comments on page 2 of the comments): http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2011/01/04/pittsburgh-pa-inmate-claims-guards-denied-her-epilepsy-medication_201101046604.html http://www.depravedmindset.com/2011/01/medical-neglect-in-prison-stories-of.html http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-police-beating-police-use-stun-gun-on-man-who-says-he-was-having-seizure-20110207,0,2959371.story http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-558713 http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-558360 I carry digital recording units with GPS with me all the time, and sometimes it's amazing what people will say to a person/each-other during a seizure. With cell phones triggered to upload the possible events, I hope technology/prices makes it possible soon for video too. Some States try to make recordings illegal (at least in "private"), but the ADA legal battle over such as "reasonable accommodation" will probably end up in federal court someday. In the USA, I had to get a permission slip from my doctor to use a GPS in many places, since resultant brain damage from a TC impaired my memory for new locations/directions. Most of my legal encounters with law enforcement, involving incidents weighted with my epilepsy, have been much more Platonic, but Plato's most famous teacher lastly adjudicatedly drank hemlock. As one of my job counselors told me, I was suing the police, when I filed discrimination claims against the FDIC, OPM, and the IRS under the Rehabilitation Act/(now& ADAAA). I was suing over employment discrimination, so I was approaching the legal agents from a different direction, and it turned out to involve "eliciting incriminating evidence from recalcitrant bankers", but the legal enforcement entities were the ones who destroyed evidence, lost records, developed faulty memories, etc., and they developed, and cited, a vast set of unwritten rules they only followed when it happened to suit their immediate purpose, and were otherwise violated at any whim. I followed logistical hints from the legal advice given to the agencies on how to "most efficiently handle" complaints of disability discrimination. The "most efficiently handle" philosophy was always a Catch-22, but a Catch-22 that necessarily relied on nit-picking the truth and facts into easily worthless dust. But their shirking the law with Catch-22 made each such tiny bit of dust a pivotal legal issue. Since I tended to be overly academic, whenever the government took a hard lump of truth and facts, and crumbled it up into dust easily dispersed by the faintest breeze into bits of viewed falsehoods, I used the law library as a broom and dustpan to regroup their product and present it back to them in the required format dictated by the Code of Federal Regulations. They didn't like the smell of their own product, so "yes" officially became to mean "no" in every step of adjudicated legal logic, and as the Greek mathematician Pythagoras before Plato is often cited as discovering, rationality with the law goes out the door as soon as the law itself crumbles to dust with the practiced Catch-22 leading to a necessarily reductio ad absurdum, while any knowledge that the Self-Evident Truths are being officially practiced as just nonsense, was, maybe only back then, a Capital Offense, without a modern Social-Contract. The lawyer I tried to retain for my oral arguments in front of the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, had the opinion that the government had spent well more than $200,000 in countering my legal actions over a ten year period, while I was only trying to obtain a trainee job position. It appears that government agencies despise people with epilepsy that much. Tadzio "Yossarian, they can prepare as many official reports as they want and choose whichever ones they need on any occasion. Didn't you know that?" "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (S&S Classic Ed edition (October 5, 1999)), page 406.