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I got news for you...any incarcerated person in the US penal system can halve his/her life expectancy over the course of a life sentence.
First off, there's environmental factors. Heating/AC ducts in modular prisons are breeding grounds for all kinds of mold spores. You actually think a facility will close down an entire mod to flush the vents? You spend 5 years living in mods and your immune system breaks down.
Secondly, the food available to all inmates is LOADED with NaCl. Salt is in all the inmate meals plus served as a side. Ten years of prison life guarantees hardened arteries.
Third,it's been speculated that nearly 2/3's of all prisoners currently incarcerated are infected with hepatitis C. Diagnosis and treatment for any disease in prison can be slow and subject to "silent" budgetary constraints depending on the state.
Fourth, corrections departments across the country dispense psyche drugs for the asking. Often an inmate can be prescribed 5 to 10 meds for maladies as common as sleep disorders to psychological disorders that span the spectrum of the DMSR 4. Any doctor is supposed to prescribe meds that do not contraindicate for his patients. The DOC med staffs don't have time nor manpower to make these distinctions, so the inmate gets whatever he's diagnosed for with no regard for contraindications, which can lead to serious health issues over time. It's on the inmate to push for these distinctions to his own med profile but ,as a rule, the common inmate can't even pronounce the meds he's taking , never mind understand Pharmacology 101.
Fifth, depression is rampant in the penal systems. Depression easily leads to suicide in a penal situation.
Prison life is NOT the life to live if you want to be an old codger in a rocking chair. If you go in at 25 you should expect to be a lucky man to see 50.
First off, there's environmental factors. Heating/AC ducts in modular prisons are breeding grounds for all kinds of mold spores. You actually think a facility will close down an entire mod to flush the vents? You spend 5 years living in mods and your immune system breaks down.
Secondly, the food available to all inmates is LOADED with NaCl. Salt is in all the inmate meals plus served as a side. Ten years of prison life guarantees hardened arteries.
Third,it's been speculated that nearly 2/3's of all prisoners currently incarcerated are infected with hepatitis C. Diagnosis and treatment for any disease in prison can be slow and subject to "silent" budgetary constraints depending on the state.
Fourth, corrections departments across the country dispense psyche drugs for the asking. Often an inmate can be prescribed 5 to 10 meds for maladies as common as sleep disorders to psychological disorders that span the spectrum of the DMSR 4. Any doctor is supposed to prescribe meds that do not contraindicate for his patients. The DOC med staffs don't have time nor manpower to make these distinctions, so the inmate gets whatever he's diagnosed for with no regard for contraindications, which can lead to serious health issues over time. It's on the inmate to push for these distinctions to his own med profile but ,as a rule, the common inmate can't even pronounce the meds he's taking , never mind understand Pharmacology 101.
Fifth, depression is rampant in the penal systems. Depression easily leads to suicide in a penal situation.
Prison life is NOT the life to live if you want to be an old codger in a rocking chair. If you go in at 25 you should expect to be a lucky man to see 50.