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Medications

Interview with mitchell, Stewart, Adam, Jeffrey, Brent and Daryll

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
mitchell: no only when the nurse came n
Stewart: there were never any meds available on the block
Adam: I have bad reflux and they would not give me tums or any other medication while I was there. nurse said she couldn't subscribe it or order it for me and I had to see her 3 times befor I could see someone who could. I also started running a high fever on a Saturday. none of the officers would call a nurse for me and when I went to put in a sick call slip the nurses told me I would have to wait till Tuesday cause Monday was a holiday. finally Monday morning I got a nurse that comes into dorm to give medication to take my temp and it was 101.8..tuesday it was 102.7...and finally gave me ib profin
Jeffrey: if you could get the c/os attention they had asperin and antacid in the officers station
Brent: no. medical treatment for anything was a joke
Daryll: no, any medication you needed you had to wait till the nurses came around to give out prescribed meds so if you had a head ache you would sometimes wait up to 6 hours for the nurse to get there

JM: How did you get your medications?
mitchell: i did not take any
Stewart: if you just needed asperin or something you had to wait for nurses to come around to give out already prescribed meds and get asperin from them. if you put in a medical request in a day or so when the nurses came around on the med runs they would have your request with them and they would ask you questions about your condition right there on the block in front of all the other inmates
Adam: a nurse would come into the dorm twice a day. once in morning around 8 and once in the evening around 9 or 10
Jeffrey: put in a request to go to medical and there was a co pay of $4.00 every time you went and then they wanted to give you whatever cheap substitute they could for what you needed
Brent: they were brought around on a cart by a nurse and when they got to the gate they would yell your name
Daryll: if you were on prescribed meds you would wait till the nurses came around with the med cart to distribute meds

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
mitchell: don't know
Stewart: I never witnessed any punishment but a lot of inmates would get meds for anxiety and other ailments like lack of sleep and stress and then they would all take their meds and get together with other inmates and make "cocktails" with all the meds combined
Adam: I never witnessed it but I would imagine they would put you in the "hole" for atleast 5 days. and put you across street in other jail...just seems common punishment for them
Jeffrey: i never really saw anything concerning drugs except for inmates saving and then taking larger quantities than they were supposed to but the inmate trustees that worked outside cutting lawns would bring drugs back into facility and when they got caught doing that they would get a write up and lose good time and go to confinement
Brent: every thing in this jail was about what the c/os wanted to write you up for. but on the block itself they didn't care what you did
Daryll: the only abuse of drugs that I witnessed were when inmates that were given trasidone would save up meds to take more at 1 time to get a buzz

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