Hell Without The Fire
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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East Mississippi Correctional Facility is a cesspool. Prisoners are underfed and routinely held in cells that are infested with rats and have no working toilets or lights. Although designated as a facility to care for prisoners with special needs and serious psychiatric disabilities, ECMF denies prisoners even the most rudimentary mental health care services. Many prisoners have attempted to commit suicide; some have succeeded. One prisoner is now legally blind after EMCF failed to provide his glaucoma medications and take him to a specialist, and another had part of his finger amputated after he was stabbed and developed gangrene.
This video is the story of two people forever damaged by their time at East Mississippi Correctional Facility. Prison sentences mean time behind bars, not abuse. The Mississippi Department of Corrections bears ultimate responsibility for these atrocities happening on their watch. Share this video to help us end the abuse.
Music by Keith Kenniff
Transcript:
Hell without fire
♫ Solemn Music ♫
Woman Speaker: You would agree, would you that the Mississippi Department of Corrections
has an obligation to to treat its prisoners
humanely and to provide them with a safe environment.
Matthew Naidow (Captain at EMCF): Yes. That's what we're supposed to do.
Slide says: HELL WITHOUT FIRE Two Prisoners Forever Damaged by Time at Easy Mississippi Correctional Facility
Cynthia: A couple of times I went, maybe three times. I would go in and you through your
thing and you sit there and you wait in your loved one to come out. Kenji walks out.
He's a zombie. He's a zombie. He's in slow motion. He's just a zombie. I'm trying to talk to
him and his eyes is talking to me. I mean his eyes is "Mom, I love you" and whatever
else he was saying. It was like nothing would come out. So, I got up because I had ... You're
supposed to sit across from them, but I had to touch him. The guards, "You can't be touching
him." I told them "Oh, yes I can. Y'all do that you got to do to me, but I'm going to
touch him because something is not right." I rubbed on him and went back and sit across
the table. I try and talk and I'm talking to him. What's going on at home and stuff.
He say "Love you." That's all he could say. That was all he could say. I was so angry. So angry.
Slide says: Kenji served one year at EMCF for marijuana possession.
Cynthia doesn't know exactly what happened to her son while in the prison's care.
Kenji was too scared to be filmed or pictured in this video.
Christopher: I know I made a mistake and I know I had to do the time for it. I didn't
know I had to lose my eyesight in the process.
Slide says: Christopher Lindsey a former EMCF prisoner who lost his sight because of the prison's medical neglect.
They know you got Glaucoma and your pressure is running in the 30s and they just walk on
pass you and just keeping living their day and don’t even care. At that they didn't
have have no eye equipment or nothing. He was using a flashlight and shining it in my
eyes. I know people dying in there, getting killed in there. I wouldn't even send my dog
there to that place. It was hell but it just with no fire.
Cynthia: I want him to be a productive young man, have a wife and bring some grandbabies.
That's what I want, but instead I'm fighting for his life, for his sanity.
Christopher: Prison took the main thing I wanted, to see my kids grow up. Now I can't
see them do the things that I wanted to do with them. I can't go pick them up or let's
go on a road trip. Can't see them walking down the aisle. Sometimes I didn't want to
be on this Earth because I couldn't see no more. I felt like I was worthless.
Matthew: Like you compared the civil servant versus private company. They might have the
same goal to run a prison but they have different agendas.
Slide says: Mississippi's Department of Corrections employs a for-profit company to run EMCF.
Prisoners report grave, even fatal, injuries because of the neglect, violence, and staff corruption at the prison
Their sentences were for behind bars, not abuse.
Help us fight back.
ACLU
I don't have words to express my thanks for Elizabeth Alexander and the ACLU. My stepson died in June 2011 in Parchman. We still have very little information about it and the state investigated for years. Now it's 2017 Epps is in prison and lots of employees terminated. He lived in Marshall County Correctional Facility ran by the same company as ECMF and was moved due to gangs and died shortly after. Autopsy was not conclusive. It's really a serious proton the prisons.
It's 2020 and no one hasn't done anything about the situation!
Now problems still continue Lord Jesus
Just imagine how many died
Jay Z just filed a suit. Things will finally be changing.
Prisoner abuse and neglect is a horrible crime, but featuring an inmate with a disease that might not have been responsive even to the best medical care mixes up the message. It gives the provider a defense when none should be available. I would take the problem on as an individual claim, but the sad reality is that sort of trouble does not make a good representative case.
0:09 "Operated by Management & Training Corporation"
Well there's your problem: It is a for-profit prison.
This what there saying, is all true my son got placed there on two occasions , I seen the water inspection reports .
When he would tell me about the conditions there , I didn’t believe him at first. He was saying, the same list of things that are all over the news. This was 3-5 yrs ago. When he was sick /beat said , guards wouldn’t help, how when the fights went on ,no one would help them or stop it. There were so many times it sounded like an insane isylum, on the phone. Being helpless to do anything.
It’s not just parchman in ms. This type of thing happens all over USA . Then if you report it your always afraid that someone will turn a blind eye ..... because, they are worse than the people that are in there. The prisoners have no value, to them. This results in going back again. They put the law above everything , addictions ,sick, mentally ill ,handicapped there all there . . I don’t believe they care , and It will never fix or correct the situation. They need to focus on the why and how can they help
them. It would cost them far less money than prisons.
I'm praying for you Mark Brown you are in this hell hole. God bless you I love you
The guy in this story was charged with rape, he a registered MS sex offender look up his name on the website.....
I was sent here for the last 4 months of a 84 month sentence. They said I was going to pre release. The worst 120 days of my whole 2555 days put together. I 100% agree that prison shouldn’t be a comfortable place. But this shithole was down right pitiful. Seen some off the wall shit
this doesn't just happen here it happens at alot of these Ms prisons something needs to change!
What abot the staff from tccf.tallahatchoe prison..??
Aren't we a loving Christian nation? America is a like a Hollywood movie set, if you look closely, you can see the false façade. The beauty is on the surface, under the skin is the reality, and it's ugly.
I feel so bad for this mother I mean everybody makes mistakes anybody can end up in prison! I don’t give A fuck! Who you are! This is fucked up
I think that prisons should be self sufficient as in the prisoners would have to work and farm and feed themselves . Of course healthcare would be provided and the worse your crime is , the longer your sentence will be .
Happy to life in good old peacefull Europe!! Would never ever go to the USA - one of the worst countries in the world (like Russia, North-Corea and so on...) :(((
Europeans always forget that America also subsidizes their NATO defense and has large trade surpluses with countries like Germany. The USA also protected Europe from Soviet tyranny during the Cold War. Europeans have more to thank America than to hate or criticize it.
At least they are in no pain, because they're not there anymore. They're in a better place somewhere. The mind copes.
You think that makes it okay? Because it doesn't.
Your crazy to think it's ok
Follow the money.
Why are these people in prison in the first place?
The one that now has psychological damage after being there for a year was in there for marijuana possession - ie, something that's not even illegal in a lot of civilised places.
Does it matter their still human
I was arrested for no license or insurance in Marks, MS. By midnight they told me I would be transferred to the prison if I couldn't bond out because that jail didn't house females, only males. Point being, All inmates aren't there for violent offenses.
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May karma hit those demons!!
ExoticC Monroe fuck you! Your the demon