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Medications

Interview with Julie, Inmate's Sister, Houston, Claire, Jim, Inmate's Mom, Smyth, Ken, Charlene, Greg, GMan, Jamie, Leisha, Toby, Lisa, Consuela, Tiffany and Tom

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Julie: did not need any
Inmate's Sister: yes tylenol or advil
Houston: Yes.
Claire: I never took meds, but it seemed like there was no problems with other inmates having access to their meds.
Jim: yes when medical finally gets it straight. It costs each inmate for medical services. If you dont have money they will put it on your account and when you do get money they take it first before you make commissary.
Inmate's Mom: Yes, after the officers beat him up they did let him go to the infirmary.
Smyth: Yes, you were allowed to get your medicine.
Ken: Did not apply
Charlene: no
Greg: none.
GMan: Not applicable
Jamie: no
Leisha: NO, MEDICAL TREAT YOU LIKE YO AIN'T SH*
Toby: well i did but you had to write a request for what you needed.
Lisa: No.I am hypothyroid and it took me 3 days to get a bottle of pills. I had left mine at my house.
Consuela: No, I am diabetic and I suffer from depression and hypertention. I was told that my depression medication wasn't needed. I was sent to medical and waited more that 5 days to ge tmy medicine. That is the main reason so many inmates die waiting on medicine or medical attention.
Tiffany: Nope.
Tom: i did not take medications

JM: How did you get your medications?
Julie: They were brought to u by nurse
Inmate's Sister: nurse
Houston: A cart that came by and called your name.
Claire: The infirmary would send around a cart to each pod.
Jim: the nurse goes to each cell house
Smyth: Stand in line while guards tell you what a failure you are.
Charlene: I went through med clinic for the inmates, but never got all of my medications. They even told me it would take 30 days to receive all my medications.
Greg: through the person in charge called the rep, she helped me with everything.
GMan: Not applicable
Jamie: nurse
Leisha: PILL CART
Toby: the nurse would come around and pass out medications.
Lisa: A nurse brought them to me
Consuela: A medicine cart comes around to administer medications at appropriate times. But the hard part is to get the medicine assigned to you. It cost to see the doctor it is NOT free. They take money off your comissary.
Tiffany: Never did.

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Julie: No one in my house had that problem from what i noticed
Inmate's Sister: lockdown
Houston: Dont know
Claire: I wouldn't know first hand, but I could imagine that the punishment would have been pretty severe.
Jim: THEY LOCK YOU DOWN IN SEG
Smyth: You would probably be given another County case to be responsible for as soon as your sentence was up.
Charlene: Public humiliation from officers
Greg: lockdown I assume.
GMan: Not applicable
Jamie: -------------
Leisha: LOST OF PRIVILIDGES
Toby: well i don't know about that.
Lisa: I don't know. I didn't abuse mine.
Consuela: None.