FBI Ignores Abuse of Inmates at Cook County Jail with Drugs

Jerry Brown, the Attorney General of California has indicted a doctor, a nurse, and a pharmacist for elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon for forcing high doses of psychotropic medications on Alzeimer’s and other patients to shut them up and keep them in a zombie like state. Three patients died due to results of these wrongful acts.

In Illinois it is illegal to involuntarily force psychotropic drugs like Haldol, Zyprexa, Ativan and even Benedryl by injection on patients unless they are an immediate danger to their own life or someone else’s life and then a court order must be obtained to continue the medication involuntarily. Also Haldol has very unpleasant side affects in a large proportion of patients including akisthesia (an inability to stay still – the person has to get up from bed and from sitting down – so the guards will think they are uncooperative and will assault the person even more), dystonia (muscle spasms, involuntary movements, tongue handing out, inability to control muscles of speech so slurred or difficult speech, if it happens with muscles of larynx the person will spasm down the airway and suffocate).

Cook CountyDept. of Corrections (Cook County Jail or CCDOC) officers constantly request nurses to give such medication to shut up complaints by inmates, to quiet them even though they are not harming anyone and are locked in their cells, and in retaliation for disagreements with the officers. Nurses call doctors on the phone and ask for prescriptions and the doctors illegally prescribe the medication without examining the patients. Even if they examine the patients, doctors at CCDOC Cermak Infirmary under the direction of the Director of Psychiatry, Dr. David Carrington, continue to violate ethical standards and the law with such prescriptions when they are not needed and when there has not been adequate evaluations or diagnoses that require such medication. Even if the medications may be indicated, they cannot be given involuntarily except under strict guidelines. Haldol is a dangerous drug that should not be used like a pair of handcuffs and the person must be carefully monitored. It is a drug of last resort, not a weapon of restraint. Anyone using it as a restraint tool should be arrested.

I complained to the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commissions Human Rights Authority Branch that by law must investigate complaints of violations of the Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. They sustained my complaint that psychotropic drugs were being given illegally to inmates to shut them up. After the HRA warned Dr. Carrington that this illegal practice must stop, Dr. Carrington and his staff with assistance of the officers are continuing to violate the law. Each act of forcing psychotropic drugs on an inmate/patient without proper diagnosis and without documentation that they are a danger to their own life or the life of others is a class A misdemeanor.

For more details about this “Haldol Menace” see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA2S-oOOJyY&NR=1

A second investigation concerning the illegal involuntary drugging of Mr. More is occurring right now.

Dr. Carrington should be disciplined, his license revoked, the nurse’s involved licenses revoked, and the officers retrained to understand the law and how to properly help in the mental health care of mentally ill persons without assaulting them.

If this was California, Dr. Carrington would be charged with abuse of patients and assault with a deadly weapon and face up to 11 years in prison. Why is State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez doing nothing? Why is the United States Attorney who came to the same conclusion about this medical battery and malpractice doing nothing? We need a public outcry, legislative hearings, and indictments and action by the Illinois Department of Professional Responsibility.

Please complain to:
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, Cook County State’s Attorney, 50 W. Washington, Room 500, Chicago, IL 60602,

Patrick Fitzgerald and Joan Laser, Asstant United State’s Attorneys at 219 S. Dearborn, 5 th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604, and

the press.

This barbaric medical battery and abuse must stop! Injection of these drugs into asthmatics or others without careful review of their medical records and careful diagnosis is malpractice, assault with a deadly weapon, and medical battery. It may cause death in certain persons (fatal laryngospasm in asthmatics) and permanent brain injury. Haldol has now been documented to cause brain atrophy in long term use and has a half life of 8 days in the brain – and leads to serious complications in at least half of people it is given to.

FBI Ignores Attack and Torture of Dr Shelton by Officials in Illinois

The following is a brief description of how I was wrongfully convicted, illegally sentenced, denied medical care, tortured and defamed, as an innocent physically disabled individual in the Cook County Courts, Cook County Jail, and Illinois Department of Corrections. I have informed the FBI, Illinois State Police, and US Attorney and they have done NOTHING! The Illinois officials are doing this in retaliation for my complaints of corruption and my whistle blowing activities. 

Illinois is therefore a totalitarian police state, a fact that is covered up by the U. S. government. There is no justice. Anyone who attempts to fight corruption in Illinois is defamed, attacked, marginalized. The officials get rid of female witnesses by accusing them of being a nut, a slut, or a criminal. Then the woman is not taken seriously. American Justice is a myth. Please help bring this to the light of day and to the press. Please COMPLAIN vigorously.

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I was not raped, but I as a physically disabled woman in a wheelchair, was viciously attacked by Sgt. Anthony Salemi at the Cook County Jail when wrongfully incarcerated for exercising my civil rights. Sgt. Salemi falsified his records and said I rammed him with my wheelchair causing an abrasion and kicked him in the chest causing soreness. I was tried by a corrupt judge Joseph Kazmierski and with extreme Nifong-like prosecution by Asst. State’s Attorney Andrew Dalkin and John Maher, which totally biased the jury and prevented me from presenting evidence that totally impeached the state’s witnesses, wrongfully found guilty. In violation of law that required probation, I was sentenced to 2 yrs in the IDOC.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

In the Cook County Jail (Sheriff Thomas Dart) and Illinois Department of Corrections’ Dwight Correctional Center (Warden Mary Sigler), I was medically neglected and tortured – punished for “refusing to walk” in solitary for months with the light on 24 hrs a day. I was denied any phone calls to anyone including my attorney and dwindling elderly father in violation of law. I was put on suicide watch in a bare cell with a thin mattress on the floor and no clothes except a suicide smock. I was denied toilet paper, toothpast, toothbrush, everything. I went on a hunger strike in protest. They punished me more for refusing to stand up and walk to the door to be cuffed. I was so dehydrated I could not get to the sink for days. They didn’t even bring me water so I stopped drinking. I suffered from diarrhea for five days and was unable to get up to the toilet so went over myself. I was refused any towel or washcloth or bin of water to clean up and found it very difficult to get to the sink. I lost a lot of weight from 175 lb to 120 lb in six months. I was denied appropriate medical care. When I had a life-threatening asthma reaction to the food and asked for the ingredients and a special diet they refused. So I refused to eat. The Director of the Medical Division at Dwight Correctional Center told me she solved my problem, that they would give me pureed food. That is like giving peanut butter to a person allergic to peanuts!

I was taken straight to an ER when released and was fluid resuscitated and given electrolyes as they were out of wack due to severe dehydration and starvation. Yet the jail doctor from Wexford Medical group (a scumbag contract group that provides medical care to prisons around the country) wrote I was well. There is more, but I am shaking with bad memories and can’t write. This has to stop. I want to testify in Congress.

Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.

see: http://cookcountysheriffdeputies.wordpress.com/

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/

Please write to the FBI and demand they prosecute these people for felony violation of civil rights:

https://tips.fbi.gov/

Write the White House and tell President Obama you are appalled at the torture IN THE US and the fact that the US Government is condoning, as well as therefore aiding and abetting retaliation against whistle blowers, government corruption, and torture.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Write your Congressmen. Write the press. Do whatever you can to expose this corruption.

If you have a similar story about the FBI or US Attorney ignoring evidence of felony violation of civil rights or corruption, please e-mail me at picepil@aol.com.