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Medications

Interview with Shawanda Miller, Jeremy, Chuck, Charles and Josh

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Shawanda Miller: Only when the nurse came around which I believe was 3 times a day. Before you didn't have to pay for aspirin, etc., but now they charge you.
Jeremy: Nope. I turned myself in with my medications, and the nurse wouldnt give it to me the first night because she said she had to verify it through my doctors......
Chuck: It was kinda limited. I got swimmers ear in there and that was pretty hard to get peroxide... Hard to get medical attention. They just give you asprin for everyhting.
Charles: Yes but I never took any meds at the time
Josh: I didn't take any meds, but I had a cell mate that wasn't able to get his anti depressants and was having a really hard time with it.

JM: How did you get your medications?
Shawanda Miller: Only through the nurse.
Chuck: The guys who get their meds mostly have mental health problems. Nurse would come in and yell out "meds" 3 times a day and you'd go and line up for them.
Charles: There was a nurse or an officer who would come around 3 or 4 times a day and the people getting meds would line up and get their meds.
Josh: When the med cart comes through the guard comes over the intercom and says, "if you get meds hit your buzzer and ill let you out, have your water ready".

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Shawanda Miller: Loss of good time, segregation from what I've heard.
Chuck: They'd put you in lock down over at the max unit.
Charles: You would be sent to solitary confinement and perhaps strip searched. I was caught one time with chewing tobacco and other people were busted with meds for sale.
Josh: There is no abusing of drugs and its impossible for the inmates to cheek the pills because they crush all the meds up in a bag and give it to the inmates.

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