Refused medical treatment in Texas

I’m writing in reference to the mental health and overall medical conditions in the Texas pri$on $y$tem. Here recently they’ve been taking several mental health patients off their psych medications even though these individuals need these medications. They say these individuals don’t need these medications anymore, even though they’ve been diagnosed with mental disorders prior. Since they’ve started taking these individuals off their medication there’s been several of them attempting suicide (one successful).

They’ve refused me treatment for a rash I had spreading over my body. I had to raise hell just to get some medication for it. It’s to the point now where it’s extremely difficult to get any kind of treatment for anything.

The big picture is these pigs could care less about our mental or physical well being. It’s all about making a dollar to them. If they got to cut back on our medical care, to make more money they will. That’s why we got to make a stand comrades, we can’t just sit back and let these pigs f**k us over. Sad thing is a lot of these prisoners don’t know how to fight back, that’s why those of us that do need to step up and show our fellow brothers how to stand up to this injustice system here in Texas and everywhere else for that matter. Once these pigs see that we won’t be run over and mistreated, they will stop their B.S!

MIM(Prisons) responds: We are printing this report in our issue focused on mental health. While medical care is often tied into mental health in our society, we are putting forth an approach that looks at mental health as a social issue and problem. While in the narrow sense, these prisoners may have acted on their suicidal tendencies because they stopped receiving certain medications, these medications were only a band-aid to begin with. And while suicide is the ultimate destruction of a humyn being, the fate of many people who are victims of this oppressive system of incarceration, isolation and drugging is little better. So, rather than see the lack of medicine as the cause of death, we would say that the oppressive system of imperialism caused this death and the other suicide attempts.