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Medications

Interview with Nicole, Toby, Donald, Manuel, Jimmie, Jack, David, Rhonda, Paul, Mike, Leo and Liz

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Nicole: most times.
Toby: very difficult to get proper care in prison or jail. I almost dies in the county because they would not take me to the Dr. They had some really stupid black lady from Chicago that was supposed to be a physicians assistant after Dr. Seal got fired. This lady din't know the first thing about the medical profession or medications. She tried to tell me that acetomenaphin cured kidney stones and after a week of taking those and telling her she was wrong, one of my kidneys almost bursted because of the blockage and they finally took me to the hospital with a lab workup request and one of the tests turned out to be a pregnancy test. In prison, a guy named Blevins died sitting in the waiting room for those sorry SOB's to check his heart out. Most of the medical personnel are failures in the outside wold an have been run off from everywhere so the state hires them. One nurse, when I told her the medication didn't work, told me to pray over it.. SHE WAS SERIOUS!!! The tag on her car said godchasr or something to that effect.. God Chaser.. She was truly a nut and dumb as a box of rocks.
Donald: No I didnt get any meds while I was there but some people did.
Manuel: No they don't give all meds like narcotics
Jimmie: yes you could put a medical request in and get meds
Jack: Nope. You had to go to medial which you were only allowed to do if they felt you needed it.
David: I am not on any meds
Rhonda: Yes but it took forever even if you really needed them medical sucked.
Paul: No
Mike: NO...No, very tightly controlled. The only access to medications was a pill call. Pill call was in the am and the pm. There was alot of inconsistency as to the times. Sometimes they would come early in the am (5 ish), then not show up again for pm meds until 1030pm. You must have a verified prescription from your provider in order to receive medications
Leo: no
Liz: No there was no access to medications.

JM: How did you get your medications?
Nicole: pill cart.
Toby: Pill call line waiting in the rain sleet or snow.
Donald: You had to order them a head of time. The meds came at certain times. Dont know if it was on schedule.
Manuel: You would have to go to medical to get prescribed them then they have a med call in the am and pm you go out in the hall and the nurse gives it to you
Jimmie: they had a nurse that would be in the hall and they would take the people in each pod one pod at a time out to get there pills
Jack: To recieve medications a nurse would come to every block and you would line up and she gave them to you
David: I am not on,any meds do I really have to anser this with 20 words I was not on meds
Rhonda: nurse came in, in the mornings and the evenings.
Paul: I didn't
Mike: THere is a medical assistance/tech that comes twice a day and you line up and wait until its your turn.
Leo: none
Liz: I did not need to take any medications. There was a person that gave medication to the people that had to have it.

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Nicole: write up.
Toby: Write-up and loss of good time. Some of the guards that brought us the drugs would do them with the inmates in the unit manager's office.. lol
Donald: I see a person try to bring something extra in. They were seperated and searched. It would have been bad to do that.
Manuel: You could get put on lock down and catch another charge for what you got fought with and when I was in there a inmate and guard got busted with drugs and cigarettes and cell phone
Jimmie: If you got caught with drugs or contraband you would get a write up go to segregation and get another charge and more time
Jack: i never witnessed this. But you can lose phone or visitation privileges. You can also be put on lock down and I;m sure catch a charge
David: I do not no the punishment for anything like this I have never witnessed anything like this never paid attention
Rhonda: If you was caught depending could be new charges or go to the shoe.
Paul: Not sure, no
Mike: There were inmates that would "cheek" their medications. They in turn would "sell" (barter) them to others. Illegal drugs smuggled in from the outside occurred infrequently.
Leo: n/a
Liz: There was the punishment of being held longer, put in the hole and having to do extra work for drug abuse.

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