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  • To my great shame of living in this county, the County Commissioners voted to stop giving Mental Health Medication to new inmates coming into Comanche County Detention Center, saying inmates will have to get and pay for their mental health medications from outside sources. Free evaluations and recommendations will still be done at the ONLY mental health facility serving 5 rural counties. The County Commissioners cite the State of Oklahoma's budget crisis.  Oklahoma bases its state budget on Oil Revenues. Not wind farms, not other revenue resources; just oil.  Oil took a hit because of fracking and dirty politics.  

    Budget crisis or not, this state balanced the budget on the backs on the most vulnerable of our citizens: the Elderly - by closing senior centers, the Poor- by cutting funding to food, and services they need and use, the Sick who use Medicaid, and our children, many who will lose their health care.

    The state of Oklahoma enacted laws that target the mentally ill, closed down many mental health facilities, filled the jails and prisons with the mentally ill who now can no longer get free medication to help them cope with being arrested and incarcerated.  

    Unconscionable.  I have written my county representative, as well as my state senator, to no avail.  But with my vote, I will voice my concerns once again, come 2018.  I will continue the fight.  

    http://www.kswo.com/story/37161012/some-comanche-county-inmates-no-...  

  • This was scary. It was like looking at the future of my son - and I'm guessing many of those incarcerated. It's so frustrating. I want to help so badly, but I don't know what to do. Isn't there a way for all of us "in the know" to get together and rise up against this horrid situation?

  • when will they get?????? we just can't seem to get enough info out there... is anyone listening????!!!! is anyone reading these articles!!!??? CAN ANYONE SEE US???!!! CAN ANYONE HERE US???!!! :(

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