Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
Abuse of Mentally Ill Inmates Standard Operating Procedure in SC Prisons
If you are looking for a classic example of the lack of political leadership in South Carolina, look no further than the front page of today’s Greenville News. Circuit Judge Michael Baxley issued a 45 page ruling that gives the state Department of Corrections six months to formulate a plan on how to deal with better serving its mentally ill inmates. Baxley said his ruling, “should not come as a shock” to the agency. “Despite its knowledge of the grave risks these deficiencies pose to mentally ill inmates SCDC has failed through the years to take reasonable steps to abate those risks.” Apparently the decision and revelations of mistreatment of mentally ill prisoners comes as a shock to Senator Mike Fair, of Greenville, the chairman of the Senate Corrections and Penology Committee who told The Greenville News “I didn’t know that we had a problem with any particular aspect of mistreating or not treating inmates who have a diagnosis of mental illness.” Y
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Lipstick on a Pig
Updated on Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 12:50PM by
Roxanne Walker
In an August 23rd opinion article published in The Greenville News http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013308240013, Karen Floyd the former chairwoman of the SC Republican Party decries the widening electoral gender gap and claims that the GOP isn’t anti-woman, just in need of more appealing messaging. She further opines that no Republican candidates supported banning birth control. However the proof of the Republican Party’s ongoing war on women is in the policy and the facts speak volumes. According to the Guttmacher Institute, in the first three months of 2013, 694 provisions that relate to reproductive health were introduced. And that’s not including a number of other measures which could make it harder for women to get birth control, cut women off from cancer screenings, or prohibit sex education programs that help prevent teen pregnancy. The great majority of these bills were passed by Republican dominated state legislatures.
Get Up Stand Up!
On Monday, I gathered with my 70 of my progressive friends at the Bi-Lo Center in downtown Greenville to openly protest SC Governor Nikki Haley’s efforts to win a second term. We as progressives in South Carolina are determined to make Nikki Haley run on her deplorable record of cronyism, ineptitude and penny pinching and her policy of politics/profits before people. For more facts click on http://nikkihaleyfacts.com/