There is a consistent pattern of medical neglect characterized by a plethora of malpractice lawsuits. Many inmates in A.D.O. C’s penitentiaries have died, needlessly leaving behind small children, families, and friends.
Many of the victims of A.D.O.C.’s third world type of health care system were “short-timers” in prison. other inmates suffer tremendously having to endure a medieval kind of misery, forced to live with under-treated illnesses both minor and major. many inmates who are required to take medications design to keep them alive have made numerous administrative complaint against the prison’s medical providers stating: “The provider” continue to allow are prescriptions to expire and waiting days to renew mandatory medications”. Consequently, countless inmates have suffered hospitalization and some have lost their lives, stolen by A.D.O.C.’s thief in the night, their medical providers.
The medical providers use by A.D.O.C. are protected by their corporation status of L.L.P. or L.L.C. and appear to not regard the consequences of potential tort suits.
In fact, one morning in August 2012 while incarcerated in A.D.O.C.’s complex located in Tucson in the Cimarron unit, inmate Benjamin Johnson Woke up to discover his left arm was severely swollen. From Johnson’s left elbow down to the tip of his left wrist, his arm was blown up to the size of a man’s thigh. Immediately, Mr. Johnson alerted Cimarron medical staff to an awareness of his disturbing and precarious discovery. The nurse on-call that morning took Mr. Johnson’s vitals. The nurse told Johnson, that because his vitals appear to be normal, her own diagnosis was, he probably tore a muscle in his arm exercises. She explained to Johnson that a torn muscle was not life-threatening. So, she could not do anything for him. The nurse asked Johnson to leave. Benjamin Johnson returns to his cell. He was in pain and not satisfied with the nurse’s nonsense reasoning walked back to medical and demanded to be taken to the hospital or be seen by a ‘real’ doctor. Cimarron’s medical staff incessantly refused Johnson medical request, insisting that his issue was minor and did not require the attention Johnson believed it did.
Mr. Johnson was asked to leave once more; he was told an arrangement would be made for him to see the doctor in a couple of days. Johnson refused to leave and ardently demanded medical attention. Therefore, staff members initiated what is called an I.C.S. (incident command system). This I.C.S. pull the attention of the upper echelon of authority in Cimarron toward. Mr. Johnson, thus highlighting his precarious medical issue. Sergeant (anonymous) appeared on the scene. The sergeant question Johnson about his refusing to leave medical. Johnson’s response was enough for the sergeant to make the necessary arrangements to have Mr. Johnson immediately transported to U of a Medical Center in Tucson Arizona.
Interestingly, the doctor Who treated Benjamin Johnson said, “sir. You don’t have a torn muscle. Your arm is swollen because you have a major blood clot and it is traveling fast. Had you come two- hours later you would have died. In addition, Mr. Johnson remained hospitalized for over four months. Truly, a reckless performance by A.D.O.C.’s medical provider. A performance that nearly closed the curtain on a forty-one-year-old man’s life, needlessly (Johnson, Benjamin). Personal Interview. 2, July 2013).
Arizona Department of Corrections reported negligence in providing health care for an inmate affects not only prisoners but their families as well, for example.