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Medications

Interview with Milles, Preston, Lauren, Rosa and Dallas

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Milles: yes but only necessary meds. no aspirin or pain meds ever.
Preston: Yes, it cost 7-dollars. And would be the price for one weeks worth of Tylenol and aspirin.
Lauren: I never required medications, but for people that did they were available.
Rosa: Yes I loved health care in there
Dallas: Yes, the staff was very good at getting me my medicine.

JM: How did you get your medications?
Milles: from the nurse wagon once in morning once in afternoon and once at night.
Preston: I had to order once a week through medical service by putting in a medical slip and handing it to guards.
Lauren: They would call medline througout the day.athat is the way medication was distributed to the inmates, they would line up and each get their meds one at a time.
Rosa: Well I got them off medcart and I took them orally in my cell and dozed off after taking them
Dallas: I got my medications off the med cart, some of the medications I could have in my cell, others i'd have to get daily.

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Milles: new charges. solitary lock down.
Preston: Yes, inmates that abused drugs were put in segregation if caught storing drugs on them or another person. I was put in segregation for marijuana possession.
Lauren: Drug abuse would land a person in heroin in and was sharing with other inmates.ole, or a dry cell without access to a toilet so that if a person consumed the drugs they would have to pass them through their body asst some point.Yes i witnessef it, a lady brought heron
Rosa: Oh man the hole and I mean segregated hole and you stayed In there for a week or two or three it was serious
Dallas: If you were caught abusing drugs you were put in segregation, or the hole, and maybe even taken off your medications. I witnessed this multiple times when people got caught cheeking their pills.

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