To: State of Ca. Boare of Nursing and U.S. Atturny General
Stor the torture and deaths of innocent Blacks in California prisons
Stop the use of Nurses to hide torture and deaths of innocent minority patients in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation "mental health treatment facilities". There is no medical treatment given, reporting torture is punished, and costs are in the hundreds of millions.
Why is this important?
I'm a RN who worked at a California State Prison (CMC) where large numbers of Black and Hispanic mental health patients are severely abused and tortured. Routinely locked naked in tiny unheated cement boxes for 24-hrs a day, poisoned with hallucinogenic drugs and subjected to sexual humiliation and agonizing torments--signs and symptoms of severe psychosis are often seen in just six days. Nurses reporting the abuse are harassed and fired. I saw at least a dozen who were fired, including both of our union reps.
Using nurses to pretend torture chambers are really hospitals violates the Nurse Practice Act. The California BON needs to forbid it's members from participation. This was done in concentration camps where medical personnel assisted in similar abuses. I worked in Germany after the war, where the nursing profession is disdained for this.
In going over hundreds of inmate files, I discovered that many appeared to have been convicted for the same crime, just a few names and dates changed. I suspect the reason they are locked up in secret "mental health treatment facilities" is to prevent them or their loved ones from ever obtaining legal representation. After six days of torture and drugging, most are unable to form meaningful sentences. No mail, phone calls or visitors are allowed. The staggering number of deaths by "suicide" are certified by MD's working for CDCR. No mention of torture is made but deaths resulting from torture can not be called suicide, to say nothing of the suspicious way razors, drugs, rope and other deadly implements end up in locked isolation boxes.
I noted that a black teacher was given 7 years for helping students cheat on tests. At CDCR, white officers and medical personnel involved in torturing people to death get promotions. If you feel shooting unarmed black men in the back with 45 caliber hallow points needs to stop, how about the hundreds of victims CDCR is holding incommunicado in medieval dungeons pretending to be "medical treatment centers"? No cameras are allowed but some sickening video has escaped. This atrocity has been going of for decades, resulting in many slow, painful deaths, harming thousands of individuals, families and communities. It is also very, very expensive.
One officer in particular, a records expert with 30 years experience is involved in creating phony arrest records, testified to confessions that never happened, verification of crimes that never occurred, and may alone be responsible for falsely imprisoning thousands of innocent people. The documentation is extensive. If RN's are removed, they will be harder to hide the torture as medical care.
Please sign this petition if you are interested is saving innocent Americans from hideous torture and death.
Paul Spector RN, EMT-P, CPT. U.S. ARMY Ret.
Using nurses to pretend torture chambers are really hospitals violates the Nurse Practice Act. The California BON needs to forbid it's members from participation. This was done in concentration camps where medical personnel assisted in similar abuses. I worked in Germany after the war, where the nursing profession is disdained for this.
In going over hundreds of inmate files, I discovered that many appeared to have been convicted for the same crime, just a few names and dates changed. I suspect the reason they are locked up in secret "mental health treatment facilities" is to prevent them or their loved ones from ever obtaining legal representation. After six days of torture and drugging, most are unable to form meaningful sentences. No mail, phone calls or visitors are allowed. The staggering number of deaths by "suicide" are certified by MD's working for CDCR. No mention of torture is made but deaths resulting from torture can not be called suicide, to say nothing of the suspicious way razors, drugs, rope and other deadly implements end up in locked isolation boxes.
I noted that a black teacher was given 7 years for helping students cheat on tests. At CDCR, white officers and medical personnel involved in torturing people to death get promotions. If you feel shooting unarmed black men in the back with 45 caliber hallow points needs to stop, how about the hundreds of victims CDCR is holding incommunicado in medieval dungeons pretending to be "medical treatment centers"? No cameras are allowed but some sickening video has escaped. This atrocity has been going of for decades, resulting in many slow, painful deaths, harming thousands of individuals, families and communities. It is also very, very expensive.
One officer in particular, a records expert with 30 years experience is involved in creating phony arrest records, testified to confessions that never happened, verification of crimes that never occurred, and may alone be responsible for falsely imprisoning thousands of innocent people. The documentation is extensive. If RN's are removed, they will be harder to hide the torture as medical care.
Please sign this petition if you are interested is saving innocent Americans from hideous torture and death.
Paul Spector RN, EMT-P, CPT. U.S. ARMY Ret.