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Medications

Interview with Stan, Rich and Claudia

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Stan: N/A
Rich: Yes, any medications that I absolutely required were available to me. Note however that the jail charges prescription fees and the nurse and doctor's visits to your jail account, and these cannot be covered otherwise even if you have medical insurance. The jail doesn't like to give out antibiotics or pain medications, prescription or nonprescription, and if you happen to have a particularly expensive or rare medication that they might not want to have floating around in the jail (certain sleeping or psych medications), they might substitute it with something else, or perhaps not provide any equivalent for it at all.
Claudia: NO! its very hard to get any kind of meds even tylenol for a a headache you have to fill out a medical request form to see the doctor or the nurse and iot usually takes about 3 days befor you see them and when you finally do you have to ask for permission to get tylenol or any kind of meds. again you have to do the same thing if your sick and normally by the time you get to see the doc your already starting to get better.

JM: How did you get your medications?
Stan: N/A
Rich: The medications were dispensed one or more times daily as necessary by a nurse going around the cell blocks on his/her assigned rounds.
Claudia: I had to go see the doctor and ask for them. But i would get the from the nurse when she came around with the medication cart on medication pass times which was 3 times per day.

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Stan: N/A
Rich: Although hoarding or sharing of medications is prohibited and a minor or major rule violation by the jail policies, this seems to be in practice overlooked, and it is very common for inmates to trade in medications. I did not participate in this kind of activity, but I witnessed it, and I never saw any form of concern or sanction for even blatantly obvious cases of this.
Claudia: If you were caught abusing drugs in the jail they would up your classification to a level 8 so you would be on cell alone and walk alone status for however many days the sargent decided to give you for punishment and they would also send a note to your judge and you would loose all privlegdes like commisary and every single privelegde the jail offers.

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