Most of the time, they do not come to the health center until their illness is extremely painful and/or life threatening. It is not because they do not care about their health, but fearful of the consequences of being in this country without proper paperwork. As a government funded health center, we do not report to immigration, and we welcome anyone with or without citizenship or insurance. I have taken care of many elderly patients with co-morbidities.
They lived in their own filth and waste because there were no sewers or drainage to take it away, even when they threw it out of the house it would drain into the nearby rivers. They would then wash in the river and take water from it to drink, resulting in diseases that sometimes ended in death. Young children often died from diseases that could have been prevented but due to poor living conditions and undernourishment their immune systems could not fight the disease therefore the infant mortalities were high and the life expectancy was low. Medicine was not very advanced and getting medical treatment was difficult as there were not many doctors around and it
These expenses are used to make the facilities safer by providing more staff, segregation units, and medical care. Inmates feel as if they have to defend their ground which has caused the facilities to allot less time for good behavior and , filing more criminal charges on prisoners, as a result adding more time to prison sentences. Many prisons have made headlines, for the same issues. Prisons in California have made headlines several times for racism and brutality of inmates of color. There were reports from inmates stating that they were scalded with hot water, beaten unconscious during cell extractions, and isolated for years.
As a result, notwithstanding the many reforms and legal protections created on behalf of crime victims during the last 30 years, victims frequently still feel alienated by and unsatisfied with their experience of our justice system. From a victim’s point of view, restorative justice offers a number of important improvements over the traditional criminal justice
Both the husband and the wife had well paying jobs, great health care, but they were still unable to afford the medical treatment that they required. It’s really scary to know that even those with health care can be reduced and forced into such a helpless state. Another example of unfairness is this elderly gentleman named Frank and his elderly wife. He is forced to work even though he’s worked all his life just to pay for his and his wife’s medication. Even employees of theses big shot insurance companies just can
I can not help but wonder if the lack of help causes people to fall deeper into depression. Most patients already feel alone and worthless. If there were more opportunities to receive quality care, then perhaps there would be fewer crimes, criminal activity, and suicide. I am really concerned about people and the way they feel and how they are treated. As human beings, we are all unique and special in our own way.
We don’t have control of everything in our lives like we thought we did when we were using. In our disease we were dealing with a destructive, violent power greater than ourselves. We need to learn to live differently now and not take control, because half the time, or most of the time it doesn’t work anyways. After we realize this, we become a little happier than were before. It is a process, but like they say “Let go and Let
There is also evidenced failure in the government’s efforts in enforcing safety standards. This is one example indicating the constraints of the law in its timely and effective response to serious safety hazards in the workplace for the less fortunate in society (Reiman, 1979). Although these issues are evidenced in every life, they are rarely responded since attaining the results through the set out legal system requires professionalism, skills, resources and influencing in the effort of identifying a loop-hole in the system and in the process oppress the poor even more. Since poor people cannot access any of the above, they often get to suffer for crimes they did not commit. The article further alludes to racial prejudices in the judiciary system citing
Mental illness discrimination is very prevalent in today’s society although it is hidden behind other discriminations. This is a critical situation, as mental illness does not get the same “press” time as the other discrimination. Framing discrimination in a broader social light diminished the frequency with which it was identified. I think it is even sadder that ½ of the mentally ill people that were surveyed had been discriminated
If I had to identify with a particular form of oppression it would be ableism. Ableism is “a set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities” (Maggie, 2014). As I had mentioned earlier, I suffer from bouts of debilitating depression that render me unable to function for a period of time. Unfortunately, my boyfriend is just one of many who have dismissed my depression as laziness because they just don’t understand depression. They assume that I should be just as able-bodied as them since they can’t “see” my disability and use oppressive words like lazy and ‘no good for nothing’ which only leads to further denigration of an already awful feeling.