It is a sad fact that most individuals do not receive the medical care they are in need of while incarcerated. A classification officer with a fine sense of morality once said to me, " People should be in prison "as punishment", not "to punish." I think he meant that once incarcerated they are punished further by being denied medical and psychiatric care in addition to the other brutalities inflicted on them in the prison system. We all own a share of the various outrages on this thread. It is the culture, society, and world we have created.