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Medications

Interview with CC, Kurt, Kimberly, Karen, John, Ashley and Michelle

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
CC: no
Kurt: Yes, the method was if you were feeling sick you would write a note called a kite, pass that to your CO who would pass that to a doctor. Then you could go visit a doctor if they thought you should. If you're on medication when you're arrested then the jail nurse will confirm that once you are inside.
Kimberly: Yes. If you had a bad headache or something you could ask the nurse for a Tylenol and she'd give it to you but you'd get charged like 10 dollars for it.
Karen: yes
John: No I never took any meds.
Ashley: not all the time I would have to ask over and over again
Michelle: No a nurse brought them

JM: How did you get your medications?
CC: given out very few hours
Kurt: If you're prescribed medication they'll move you to the medical pod where they bring you the pills in little plastic cups. Other then that, you can get iboprufen on the floor.
Kimberly: A nurse made med rounds 3 times a day and if you weren't scheduled to get something you could ask her then.
Karen: delivered by a nurse daily med cart
John: Since i didnt take med I didnt get any but there was a nightly nurse who came for pill call for The guys that did take eds.
Ashley: from the nurse , or the guard and then wait for the guard to bring it to me if they don't forget
Michelle: A nurse came three times a day and distributed them as prescribed by a doctor if you needed them .

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
CC: isolation
Kurt: Solitary confinment or a stay in the psych pod. That's 23 out of 24 hours locked up. No commissary, no phones
Kimberly: You would get new charges and be put into the segragation pod or the hole as they call it which is solitary confinement.
Karen: no
John: Never seen any one get caught doing srugs in county but peison was thirty days in The hole for dirty urine
Ashley: never saw any abuse if there was any abuse I didn't see any abuse of drugs by the inmates while I was there
Michelle: You would get sent to the hole no I never did see it in the county jail but heard of it

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