Look at what this poor murderer had to endure:
The disease also affects inmate morale, doctors say.
Gilbert Galaviz was convicted of murder and is serving a sentence of 25 years to life. Mr. Galaviz had been at Pleasant Valley for a week or so when he started to feel sick. “I couldn’t breathe,” he said. “My chest starting hurting, I had pain all over like somebody beat me up, and I would sweat bad at night.”
The cause was valley fever. After six months, Mr. Galaviz is still weak, having lost 30 pounds, and is barely able to complete a lap in the prison yard. Earlier this month, he was attacked and his jaw broken.
“It wouldn’t have been like that if it hadn’t been for valley fever,” Mr. Galaviz said, his jaw still wired shut. “They wouldn’t have got me. It would have been the other way around.”
What an informative piece!
hhmmmmm…now let me see. The NYT wants me to feel sorry for these inmates? These murderers? What a piece of fluff this is. You know who I feel sorry for? The guards. In spite of the risk they still have to bring home the bacon and this is their life.
One theme in the article seems to site overcrowding as being an additional burden. If this is a ploy to release convicted murderers back into society it doesn’t play with me. It only pisses me off. If the prisons are so overcrowded a good suggestion would be to spend the money necessary to deport all the illegals. I figure you would have about 75% more capacity.
I am just in tears feeling so sorry for these poor inmates! They are just victims of this white racist capitalist oppressive system, you know!
Seriously. Good point on the overcrowding issue, though. Here’s my solution: Deport all the illegal alien inmates. Tell them if they return to the U.S. in their lifetime they are under automatic death sentence. No appeals possible. Take DNA to id them. Enforce it.
Then empty out death row. We have pos’s there who have been there almost 30 years after being sentenced to die; they are using up oxygen and nutrients.
They’re saying the dirt has the spores in it, and is also making border-guard dogs sick…
sucks to be them.
Oh, and from what I read, a prison GUARD got sick and died from it.
Not very funny anymore, huh?
Living in an area where Valley Fever can be a big problem, I can tell you that it is no joke. It can cause serious permanent damage.
SFL your remarks about the dogs just shows how self loathing and anti American you are. Sorry but this is supposed to be a nation of law and the border jumpers are breaking them. They represent only 4-6% of the general population of this country, but over 24% of the prison population with a much higher rate ot recidivism and violence than the legal residents (citizens and resident aliens alike) who occupy the adjoining jail cells. Therefore, to protect the LEGAL residents of this country from the violent criminal element so prevalent south of our border, we need to take steps to keep them out. You’re insulated from the bulk of the violence because of your distance from the border, we in Arizona are not. When you move to Nuevo Laredo, or Brownsville, TX or Bigsbee or Douglas, AZ and have to deal with the heavily (illegally)armed illegal aliens committing violent crimes in your neighborhood on a daily basis, you can comment on how wonderful all of the illegal aliens are. Until then, your comments show an utter lack of understanding of the situation.
Slow down FAO, I’m wasn’t even talking about “illegals” in this topic.
All I said was that dogs used by border police are getting sick from the spores as well as inmates and prison guards, to name a few.
The powers that be here at RV posted this story to make light of prisoners getting sick, and I brought up the point that it’s not just the inmates who are falling ill.
I live in California. I understand the “illegal” situation very well, thank you. I have friends and even family members who are in the united states “illegally”.
Brown skinned people, different cultures and behaviors don’t frighten me like they do you and other conservatives.
How about increased crime, huge Sate budget defecits, crises in vital services like ERs and healthcare, loss of our culture and eventually our Country…does any of that start to concern you?
SFL- I didn’t post it to make fun of the prisoners getting sick…I posted it to make fun of the fact that we are to feel sorry for this prisoner that they featured..
6, SFL, if you got Valley Fever, maybe a post about you would be to make fun of YOU, idiot!
I sure hope that prisoner files suit. I think us the people of California deserve to pay. We reward our criminals and illegals. We pay about 6000 dollars per inmate and we want to dig deeper in our pockets and pay for more prisons instead of just truly punishing our offenders. Death pentality means death, doesnt it? 20-25 to life means until you die of old age. (parole is just lip service) Reform and rehabilitation are just real fancy words that we dont know the meaning of. Or to lazy to investigate. We say ” I dont want to hear there problems, how much to make you go away..
Until we really get hit hard enough in the pocket book, I dont think anyone is ever going to do anything about it.. Lets just throw more money, (that most of us work hard for) into it. We the average working class, really dont have enough money to buy anyone with any common since.
We however no how to gripe, but we arent going to look at the real issues. Illegals in this country really is an issue
The rest of us had to do it legal or settle the land to be here. Prison guards dieing from valley fever, seems to me if its an issue. MOVE! You do have the right to do that as where that prisoner doesnt. by the way ever research what we are paying those guards? ever noticed they start out lean however the majority are pretty healthy within months after hire. Ever wonder how the drugs get in to the prison system? maybe the guards? You know the prison system, lack of accountablity and or permenant retirment system (prison system) really needs to be looked at by the people who are paying the bill.
7 generations of california, adapted to the Amercicans who took over. looks like we are going to get it back.
SFL, I would bet I’ve studied more foreign languages and cultures than you have. The fact that you have criminals for friends and family members doesn’t surprise me in the least. So do I. The difference is that in my family, we don’t associate with the criminals and most of us will turn them in and even press charges against them if necessary. That’s called rule of law. If it weren’t for the rule of law, I could deal with a large number of the violent drug dealers in this part of Phoenix. Unfortunately, the law protects them from being shot on sight.
12, FAO, how tolerant of violent dealers and Gang bangers is Sheriff Joe?