Why Is Dr. Malachi Z. York Not Getting Medication?

If you have been following the case of Dr. Malachi Z. York then you know he has been shuffled around from institution to institution. The bureau of prisons (BOP) has made it their business to trump up their own rating system to try to justify housing Dr. Malachi Z. York in the worst prison they could possibly put him in, Florence ADX a super max facility. It is nicknamed the Alcatraz of the Rockies and designed to house the most dangerous people to society.

This is what Time in partnership with CNN had to say about the inmates housed there. "The inmates in ADX Florence include drug kingpins, gang leaders, hit men, snipers and, lately, more and more, international terrorists, including al-Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reid; mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing Ramzi Yousef and at least seven of his accomplices; and four men convicted of involvement in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. There are American terrorists too. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, spent time there before being transferred to Indiana, where he was executed in 2001. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is still at ADX, as is Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The common thread running through the crimes committed by these men accounts for the nickname given to the highest-security section of the prison: Bombers Row."

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This is not the right place for them to house Dr. York. First and foremost he is innocent, second they are unable to treat his potentially deadly medical condition Acute Hereditary Angioedema (HAE). In any facility the is unable to treat inmates they will often times transfer the prisoner to a facility that has the means to treat them. The BOP has been negligent in properly caring for Malachi York.