Last week, Cogús POW department learned that Roe 3 POW Danny McClean broke his arm while playing a game of football in the Maghaberry prison yard. Cogús were informed that Danny would be taken out of the prison to a hospital, where he would undergo an assessment to deem if the arm was broken.
However, before Danny was moved to a hospital, the screws crammed him into a cell where they forcibly strip searched him. During the search, they forced the broken arm up his back which caused Danny extreme physical pain and discomfort, such is the malice of the Maghaberry prison staff.
During the assessment in the Hospital, Danny was cruelly handcuffed. This caused him further discomfort and made the assessment extremely difficult due to Danny not having full the full range of motion of his arm.
After confirming that his arm was broke, the POW was then moved back to the prison, where once he again he underwent a full forced strip search. The screws, who were well aware that his arm was broken, repeatedly forced the broken arm up his back causing further damage to an already injured limb.
Not content with being told by the Hospital that Danny McCleans arm was broken – the savage screws had to make sure of it.
Later in the week, Cogús were informed that recent heart attack victim Tá McWilliams was refused his medication. Tá receives a monthly prescription which he is forced to take daily because of the severity of the heart attack he took only a few short months ago.
However, on Friday the prison staff refused to allow the MO to administer Tá’s medication. This means that the POW suffered without his daily medication for three days and did not receive any aid whatsoever until this morning.
It was the same negligence on behalf of the prison staff which saw Tá left in his cell for a number of hours after he had heart attack, refusing to move him to the hospital while giving him weak painkillers to numb the pain of a heart attack.
The brutality and negligence of the prison staff in Maghaberry is increasing, as is their lack of accountability. Cogús call on human rights and progressive groups to do all in their power to put pressure on the prison service to ensure that Republican POWs are treated as political prisoners and are allowed to live free of the brutality that has almost become the norm for Irish Republicans in British controlled prisons.
We really are never going to get out of the cesspit of bigotry,while this place is ruled by arrogant bastards, maintained by sectarian bastards and propped up by worse than useless politicians from the nationalist side, while quisling $inn £eind are happy to administer British rule they could at least ensure that their justice minister ensures that all prisoners receive a modicum of human rights ,
ReplyDeleteMarty to get out of the cesspit is easy. People simply stop voting in the same useless politicians.
ReplyDeleteBut the sheeple will vote them in time and time again and they they'll scratch theirs heads and bitch about them saying 'nuffing has changed'...
If people what real change, next time you place you 'X' in the booth, vote in someone else (they can't be any worse than who's running the show today)..
frankie ? -
ReplyDeleteWHY vote X - that's nonsense
put a prisoners name on the ballot and put the thing to use !!!