Guard abuse and death threats in MO

An officer has violated my civil rights. I had been on hunger strike for 30 days when I got sick and had to be sent out to the hospital. A C.O. told the nurses and paramedics who were taking me to the hospital that I like to hold nurses hostage.

When I returned from the hospital the same officer said "fuck that nigger, take the bed out of the room." He made threats on my life, and forced me to sleep on the floor for a week. For weeks I have been writing the case workers about this officer, and yet they leave me in the unit with this man.

-- a Missouri prisoner, September 2005