Montell Johnson is a 42-year-old man who spends every hour of every day in a hospital bed. He can't move, and he can't talk. He eats through a feeding tube inserted into his stomach. Years of inactivity have taken their toll: "He has no body tissue or muscle now," his mother, Gloria, says. "He's very sensitive to touch, and so it's excruciating pain when you touch his body … There's nothing really there to protect him." He weighs 70 lbs.
Johnson suffers from multiple sclerosis, a chronic and debilitating illness that attacks the central nervous system and erodes a person's capacity for basic functions. He is in the final stages of MS and is suffering from a long list of related and other ailments, including hepatitis C, which threatens to take his life. Just over a year ago, a doctor gave Johnson less than six months to live. That he has defied the prognosis is undoubtedly due to the dedicated care of his mother, rather than the quality of his medical care. That's because Johnson is not at a hospital. He is a prisoner at Sheridan Correctional Center, in La Salle County, Ill.
Cruel and Unusual: Serving a Death Sentence in a Prison Hospital | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

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be nice to the people on your way up,because you will meet them again on your way down

that is just wrong ..poor man cant they release him to a hospital whats he going to being so sick like that
inmate or not they should show some compassion or thats what i think i saw a video on youtube about them being in there with having to b in a medical section because there so sick and i think its terrible that they have to go thru that they are only human after all and personally i think they should be allowed to die peacefully in a hospital or at home etc then in there regardless of what they have done

The date of the report is December 2008. Is the man still alive now?

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My invisibility cloak appears to be working again.

It´s a bit hard to understand. Normally i would think that a prisoner who is seriously ill and unable to serve a sentence, has to be set free. When he wouldn´t be able to afford medical treatment outside the prison (normally the solidary community has to pay it), then it would be more comprehensible when he stays where he is.

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Do you like that kind of german folk music ?.

Hospice prison care and a peaceful end is needed if chosen.

Anybody this ill deserves decent hospital care whether its in prison or out. If the prison cant provide that care then they should send them to a hospital that can.

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So he is getting free health care then, when how many working millions in the USA dont have any insurance? And because he is sick his crimes should be excused? I dont think so.

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If the state is going to incarcerate people the state is responsible for their health care . The guys is suffering from a few chrnic painful nad evnatually fatal condtions andyou wishto inflict more pain on hime. Nice real Nice . That thinking is sickening and worse than 95 % of all convicts and ex cons ! Yep justice for all (None) ) and stuff right ?

Ever hear of compassion I mean they guys is going to die show some mercy and be a better person that what you think prisoners are like seeing you don't really know other than your mistaken beliefs . Ifyou do not want ot take care of offenders don''t create so many felonies

It is obvious you think every offender should be treated as brutally as possible .

It is 2009 almost 2010 .I would like to think that we have moved past the days when torturer is acceptable as punishment and that is solves any thing all it does is create a real monster .and maybe satisfy a few deeply distributed individuals lust for revenge .

If you wish to be seen as takng the high road act it .The cold hearted comets sur are ot . and dont saytgh3did blah blah . We already know that . But then Yopu guysarall aboput revenge and being cruel as possible

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i had a pen pal in michigan who was in his late 40's with leukemia before he was diagnosed he would run high fevers and the medical staff would just tell him to go back to bed and sleep it off. Since his diagnosis he has just been shuttled around between prisons, i really don't think he's getting much in the way of medical treatment they have even tried to commute his sentence so they wouldn't have to pay to take care of him.

Taking the attention off who this is about, (an inmate) and what his address is.

Again says to me," it is the system gone wrong, he is getting the same "free" ... health care we get, the bare basics,of nothing at all. Unless of course, one can pay or has insur.. Did you read the link?????
That should not happen to any human being, thru an illness or inpending death from the illness, incarcerated or "not".


No one stated his crime should be excused, in this case I highly doubt he is a threat to society at 70 lbs and dying, seems his crime will be excused thru natual causes..... no

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