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2. Donald Wayne Gann - BOP #09091-045 age 54
Prisoner Gann was a marked man with the BOP. He had reportedly been at Yazoo Torture and Death Camp going on 5 years. Yazoo is one of the worst torture and death camps operated by the BOP in the United States. The BOP classifies Yazoo Prison as a Disciplinary/Punishment Low Security Prison; although not publicly. Almost every person placed at Yazoo prison will receive more torture, both physical and mental, than most every other prison in the U.S.

Most prisoners at Yazoo are rotated out of Yazoo between 6 and 18 months due to the extreme cruel and abusive treatment given them at Yazoo. More about how the BOP operates and treats prisoners is located at the top of this page under Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

Prisoners that are disliked and retaliated upon by the BOP, the BOP makes sure they don't leave Yazoo Prison until their sentence is up, or they die. Prisoner Gann was one of those prisoners. Yazoo Prison is totally controlled by BOP Regional Director R. E. Holt in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reportedly Mr. Gann for the past three years had attempted to acquire a transfer nearer his family in Tennessee. R. E. Holt, Regional Director of the BOP in Atlanta made sure Mr. Gann did not receive a transfer.

Gann's Final Torture And Death

Eight days before prisoner Gann left Yazoo Prison, he was very sick. Witnesses stated Mr. Gann appeared to have either a serious case of pneumonia or flu. Mr. Gann was continually coughing, seriously congested and had difficulty breathing.

On a Monday in December, Mr. Gann went to BOP on medical sick call reported witnesses. Instead of treating Mr. Gann who was obviously seriously ill, Mr. Gann was given an appointment for later in the week.

Reportedly when Mr. Gann went to his appointment, his appointment was cancelled by BOP medical at Yazoo.

Mr. Gann was a diabetic and needed insulin injections daily. He advised the employees of the medical clinic that were giving him injections daily that he was very ill. Yet no one at Yazoo medical did anything for prisoner Gann.

Reportedly Mr. Gann went to sick call again that same week, however, received no meaningful diagnosis or treatment. There were times Mr. Gann was so sick he was unable to even walk to Yazoo Medical to receive his insulin shot in the 5 minutes allotted for Mr. Gann to go to medical each day. Mr. Gann was also so sick at times, he was unable to walk the 1/4 of a mile to the cafeteria and back.

By Sunday night, 7 days after Mr. Gann had attempted to acquire any help from BOP medical, Mr. Gann was in serious life-threatening medical trouble, according to witnesses.

Prisoner Gann's Last Day At Yazoo Prison Before He Died

Mr. Gann got up that Monday morning in December 2003 feeling horrible. He had advised inmate friends he was very sick, flu or pneumonia. He had eaten almost nothing in the last few days and was so sick he was unable to go to medical at times for his insulin shots. (Note: Yazoo refuses to go 200 feet over to a prisoner housing unit to administer insulin to insulin dependent prisoners when an inmate is so seriously ill he cannot physically go over to medical on his own.)

On his last day at Yazoo, Mr. Gann again went over to BOP medical at 8:00 A.M. to yet again attempt to acquire medical treatment for his very serious life-threatening condition he had degenerated to. This because BOP medical refused to offer professional diagnosis or treatment for Mr. Gann in the past.

According to witnesses, one being prisoner Derek McKinley, BOP #38724-004 who had befriended Mr. Gann for a few years, stated a nurse named Ms. Coleman from BOP medical at Yazoo helped Mr. Gann back to his unit about 3:00 P.M. Nurse Coleman told Mr. McKinley and other inmates to watch the medical condition of Mr. Gann when she brought Mr. Gann back at 3:00 P.M.

Mr. McKinley being a friend of Mr. Gann's said he would, and did exactly that. According to prisoner McKinley and others, Mr. Gann was in very serious medical condition when he had to be helped back to his housing unit and dropped off by Nurse Coleman.

Mr. McKinley stayed with prisoner Gann most of the time when he was returned from BOP medical around 3:00 P.M. By 3:30 P.M. Mr. McKinley noted that Mr. Gann was shaking and Gann told McKinley he had not been able to eat all day. Mr. Gann also advised McKinley that when he went to medical that morning (obviously in an emergency life-threatening situation) Yazoo medical advised him, before he was returned to his housing unit at 3:00 P.M., that he was to come to sick call (not that night) which was Monday night, but to report to sick call Tuesday night which was the following evening.

Just after 4:00 P.M. according to McKinley and another prisoner, Mr. Gann's shaking became more severe and he started vomiting. He appeared to be having at the least, a convulsion.

The unit officer was notified immediately, while McKinley and another prisoner secured another prisoner's wheelchair to get Mr. Gann over to medical right away. By this time Mr. Gann was totally unable to move. The two inmates picked up Mr. Gann, placed him in another inmate's donated wheelchair; placed blankets around him and wheeled him to the exit door to go to BOP medical.

The officer in charge of the unit at the time, came to the door and told Mr. McKinley that BOP medical refused to take Mr. Gann at this time. The officer at this point was notallowed to unlock the door to let Mr. McKinley push Mr. Gann over to BOP medical. This was around 4:45 P.M.

Mr. McKinley stayed right by the door, as he knew very shortly Yazoo prison would unlock the door for 5 minutes only, to allow prisoners to go to sick call.

Shortly after 5:00 P.M., a unit officer opened the door to allow inmates the 5 minutes to leave for sick call, which is done 4 times a week.

Even though Yazoo medical refused to take Mr. Gann at that time, Mr. McKinley knew Mr. Gann was in very serious medical trouble, as did other inmates. Being the humane individual person McKinley is, he was taking Mr. Gann to BOP medical whether they wanted him or not.

When he arrived at BOP medical the doors were locked and he and the other inmates waiting for sick call and insulin had to wait outdoors, in the freezing cold, which is standard operating procedure at Yazoo.

Once At BOP Medical, The BOP Still Refused To See Mr. Gann

Once inside the medical clinic Mr. McKinley placed Mr. Gann in the wheelchair right in front of the doors, the alleged doctors, physician assistants (PAs), and nurses go in and out, so they could not miss seeing Mr. Gann. This is approximately 5:20 P.M.

Mr. McKinley refuses to just leave Mr. Gann by himself at the BOP clinic. By this time Mr. Gann was totally incoherent. He did not know where he was and did not know even Mr. McKinley. Mr. Gann was still appearing to have convulsions, shaking and still vomiting.

Mr. Anthony Chambers, the Clinical Director of the BOP Medical Clinic (given title of medical doctor (MD) by the BOP, although unlicensed and not board certified as an MD by any state within the United States), walked by Mr. Gann as did most every PA and nurse, to include Nurse Coleman who dropped Mr. Gann at his housing unit. They all had to have seen Mr. Gann and the horrible shape he was in; unless they were blind. None stopped to even inquire if they could do anything for Mr. Gann.

Around 6:00 P.M. Mr. McKinley got fed up and walked into a room in the clinic where two nurses and or PAs were standing talking. (Mr. McKinley took a chance in doing this as he could be put in the hole for being in an unauthorized area without permission.)

Mr. McKinley proceeded to explain what had happened and was happening to Mr. Gann.

Mr. McKinley was requested to bring in Mr. Gann. Mr. McKinley stayed as long as he could to see what they were going to do for Mr. Gann. He saw one staff member get a bag of what appeared to be an IV saline solution and then he was asked to leave. By the time Mr. McKinley left the BOP medical clinic that evening it was so late he had missed his opportunity to eat dinner.

Prisoner Mr. McKinley was a sincere humane being and most assuredly appeared to be a great deal more concerned about the obvious life-threatening medical condition Mr. Gann was in, than anyone at Yazoo Prison; other than the unit officer who attempted in vain to get BOP medical to take prisoner Gann on a medical emergency.

Mr. McKinley was notified along with other prisoners at Yazoo that prisoner Gann died about a week later, Dec. 2003.

The selected torture and anguish that Mr. Gann suffered prior to his death is standard operating procedure not only at the BOP in Yazoo but within the BOP all across the United States. Prisoners are selected to receive no medical treatment.

This kind of selected medical treatment by the BOP isn't anything new; it's been going on within the BOP for decades, only it's gotten far worse with the very serious deliberate overcrowding along with the multitude of innocent people our Federal Government officials are deliberately imprisoning falsely.

In a Federal General Accounting Office (GAO) report being held by Kimball's associates, completed in 1994, the GAO reported that the lack of proper medical treatment in their best BOP medical facilities caused the needless deaths of prisoners. The BOP responded and said, we're going to purchase regular hospitals to care for the sickly prisoners and we're going to provide much better medical treatment to our prisoners.

The BOP Lied As They Always Do