To: Board of Corrections, Gordon J. Campbell, Chair and Dora B. Schriro, Commissioner of Department of Corrections
Help My Aunt Recieve the Healthcare She Needs and Deserves
Please help my medically deprived aunt, housed at Rikers Island, recieve the medical treament she needs! Contact the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Corrections and the NYC Board of Corrections to tell them that inmates are people too and they deserve adequate medical care!
Why is this important?
My aunt, Gwendolyn, is being housed at Rikers Island Correctional Facility's Rose M. Singer Center and needs dire medical attention! She needs surgery to fix her defective hip replacement, and is currently forced to walk with a cane, lie on a mattress all day or sit in a wheel chair while her hip dislocates, due to the separation of the bolts holding her hip in place. As her hip bones separate, she can now only recieve 4 basic Tylenol pills a day. It has gotten so bad for her that she has even declined continuing to receive visits, as it is too painful for her to make it to the visiting room and sit for that long. She is in terrible living, social, and mental conditions and that's hard enough to deal with. But to know every moment that passes that she is in such terrible pain and there is so little that I can do to change her circumstances is agonizing. I pray so hard every day for God to deliver her from her misery. In such, I have decided to contact everyone I can to seek help, justice and humanity for my ailing, medically deprived aunt.
No matter how anyone feels about the circumstances surrounding inmate rights, it should never invalidate a person's right, my aunt's right, to live as a human being should live! Her right to live as God ordained His creations to live!
My aunt needs help! She has four children, three grandchildren, with another on the way and dozens of nieces, nephews, sisters and brothers praying for and thinking of her every single day. So, I am coming to you all, the public, with faith, persistence, and few places other to go. Will you help my family and I secure humanity for my aunt please? Will you all be a part of this stand for justice and exemplifying the concept of doing to others as we would have them do to us?!
No matter how anyone feels about the circumstances surrounding inmate rights, it should never invalidate a person's right, my aunt's right, to live as a human being should live! Her right to live as God ordained His creations to live!
My aunt needs help! She has four children, three grandchildren, with another on the way and dozens of nieces, nephews, sisters and brothers praying for and thinking of her every single day. So, I am coming to you all, the public, with faith, persistence, and few places other to go. Will you help my family and I secure humanity for my aunt please? Will you all be a part of this stand for justice and exemplifying the concept of doing to others as we would have them do to us?!