While here at the California Medical Facility I noticed a lot of things
that staff should not be doing. I decided to file 602s against medical
staff for their actions dealing with prisoners whose mental state is
unstable. For my efforts I have had reprisals taken against me in the
form of “keyhea.” Keyhea is the practice of staff forcing medications on
prisoners, claiming the prisoner is a threat against others and
themselves.
To find one a threat to others or to oneself, first the psychologist
says that s/he feels the prisoner should be put on keyhea for their own
safety and the safety of others. Then another psychologist who is also
employed by CDC comes and evaluates the prisoner to determine their
mental state, and they are not going to go against their fellow
psychologist any more than one of these C/Os will go against another
C/O. Then another psychologist is sent in to also do an evaluation of
the prisoner’s mental state and they are supposed to be an independent
party, but they are hired by the Board of Prison Terms, which is an
extension of the CDC. If this “independent” person wants to get their
contract renewed with the Board of Prison Terms then it is in their best
interest to side with the CDC. When I told him this, he got real upset
and started to turn red. Everything is in their favor and nothing for
the prisoner.
I have met a number of brothers who were high up in the BGF, Black
Panthers, Bloods, and Crips, who were taken down by medication so that
they couldn’t fight the system, and these political prisoners who have
the potential to lead other prisoners and teach the younger ones also
how to fight the system have had their minds snapped by all the
medications, so they never come back from it, and they are never the
same again. This is what the system wants because now they can control
them.
I am facing something of that situation, medical staff have lied on me
saying that I have been banging my head and hands in an attempt to hurt
myself. Yet no medical report was ever done. I am not the only one who
Dr. Wiltse has done this to, she is targeting Black prisoners to put on
keyhea, and once on keyhea, one has no more say so in what they are
given and taken. If I’m put on keyhea I know the system is going to try
to break my mind by using medications. I assure you that there is
nothing wrong with my state of mind, except that I don’t go for anything
they tell me, and that I stand tall in this ongoing fight against the
system. I can’t allow myself to fall victim to these perpetrators who
are looking to control everyone and anyone they feel is a threat to the
system and their way of thinking.
I understand that female staff use sexual exploitation and manipulation
on young and political prisoners but keyhea has long since been around,
and at least when dealing with female staff who are sexual perpetrators,
one is still in charge of their senses and mental facility, but with
keyhea one is dependent on them and not in control of one’s mind.
MIM(Prisons) adds: The term Keyhea comes from a lawsuit settled in 1986.
The CDCR is required by the lawsuit Keyhea v Rushen, to seek a court
order authorizing the administration of long term involuntary
antipsychotic medication to prisoners who are considered a danger to
others or to themselves or believed to be gravely disabled and
incompetent to refuse medication.