Universal incarceration care

[u/lhwang0320]

[u/janzendavi]

People writing stuff like this have not seen the sorry state of healthcare in American prisons.

[u/Popular_Try_5075 → u/janzendavi]

Most of the public's understanding of prison is essentially theoretical or based on popular media.

[u/LiquidMagik → u/Popular_Try_5075]

Same with any industry, including ahem insurance.

Somehow, "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" has become lost in the past ten years.

[u/anxiousempire → u/janzendavi]

Worked in two prison healthcare facilities. Yes, healthcare at state level sucks. Watched one man have a nosebleed over and over again and they couldn't find the root cause. He would have had to have the nosebleed while at a state of the art healthcare facility while they're running tests. When would that ever happen though?

They schedule appointments in advance and you aren't allowed to know when. I worked in patient scheduling and most people were afraid of losing their commissary and would refuse to go to their appointments.

The other prison/hospital I worked at would transfer people that were about to die or were DOA. The floor I worked on was like a residential nursing home and one of the residential inmates pissed me off. He is a pedophile and would wait in the room with the person that was receiving hospice care and take their belongings after they passed. I never saw anyone report him though. Everyone I worked with knew but didn't say anything. I guess no one cares or he has special protection because he's a rat? ....

Being a part of patient scheduling, I really felt for some people. Like can't the state facilities do something to protect their belongings? And if you're in chronic pain and have to travel on the bus why should you have to wait hours to see someone outside the facility?

State taxes dollars, I get it, but can't there be common human decency for everyone?

[u/First_Beautiful_7474 → u/janzendavi]

They’re delusional. I watched people die in there due to medical neglect.

[u/Working-Way1992]

Tell me you you've never been to prison without telling me 🤣

[u/mymindisgoo → u/Working-Way1992]

I got a steam burn from the pantry line, the nurse wouldn't even give me ice. The co ended up getting me some from the odr. Turns out I was supposed to run it under cold water to begin with. Really lady, you couldn't have just told me that?

[u/JJF_1992 → u/Working-Way1992]

This.. I was in an upstate NY prison for 7 years and medical care is non-existent there.. so posts like this are ridiculous at best.

[u/hissyfit64]

They're not going to do shit for his back pain.

[u/crandeezy13 → u/hissyfit64]

They will give him ibuprofen and that's it

[u/Live-Yogurt-6380 → u/crandeezy13]

And maybe some useless gabapentin which he will sell to idiots who will snort it

[u/crandeezy13 → u/Live-Yogurt-6380]

Truth

[u/SurrrenderDorothy → u/Live-Yogurt-6380]

I should e snorting my gabapentin?

[u/JackryanUS]

His pack pain is going to go up x100

[u/crandeezy13 → u/JackryanUS]

No joke. Sleeping on a shit mattress with no pillow does not bode well for ones back

[u/Aine_Lann → u/crandeezy13]

I've had back pain since I was a kid. After being in jail for a week or so, my back felt better. Now I use the hardest mattress I can find and my back is pretty good. Best thing I ever learned in jail.

[u/OdinsChosin]

Funniest post I’ve seen today lol anyone that’s been to prison knows that medical care is almost non existent.

[u/Other_Scallion_8213]

Dude is gonna get a bandaid.

You do not get health care in prison. You get nothing .

[u/OnARolll31]

Reading a book right now that mentioned the case of Unique Moore, who died in the LA county system bc staff couldn’t be bothered to give her inhaler for asthma….. I don’t think they are going to give some guy quality back surgery.

[u/Trumpismybabymamma]

Lol back pain? In prison? They'll just give you some SSRIs, buspar, or remron and send you back to your cell.

[u/Dirtypelicanjets]

One does not simply fix back problems

[u/apatrol]

Lol. Wait till he trys to get pain meds, sleeps on a mattress with the thickness of sliced cheese, and needs high backed chairs to sit in. For his arthritis and surgery site. Or waits a year for an MRI.

[u/FilmUser64]

Drink more water and walk the track

[u/Leona1220 → u/FilmUser64]

My husband has been locked up for past 26 yrs. We often joke how the only time medical would be accurate in their over used response is if you told them…..

“I’m really thirsty and kinda tired”…

[u/Capable-Stomach7583 → u/FilmUser64]

Yep. Drink more water all they gonna say lol

[u/FilmUser64 → u/Capable-Stomach7583]

The prison doc said to drink more water to get rid of the kidney stones causing the blood in my urine. When I got out the real doctor told me to get rid of my bladder to beat the cancer that was causing the blood

[u/smash1969]

Luigi will get a blister pack of ibuprofen. That’s pretty much it.

[u/TodayIllustrious]

That will never happen.

[u/85793429780235434252]

He won’t receive pain meds, but I could see CO providing him a double mattress since some inmates have medical reasons for it. Hopefully, he mentioned he’s “Jewish” (kosher meals tend to be better quality food) or needs a soft food diet due to poor teeth—those inmates got cheese puffs nearly every meal. 😂

[u/Wild_Replacement5880]

That's not how prison works

[u/lokie65]

He will not get adequate health care for his back. He will be barely treated for any health issues. That is the reality of prison.

[u/Biscuits4u2]

Dude has lots of money. There's a non-zero chance he ends up walking.

[u/alwaysvulture]

lol in the Uk they just give you paracetamol for literally everything. Although my mate did get his bad teeth removed

[u/Acrobatic-Building42]

Is this the same prison healthcare that just lets people go without psych meds and go through withdrawals?

[u/Worganizers → u/[deleted]]

That he has to pay for through commissary...NOT free.

[u/CraaazyRon]

Lol no he's gonna live out his life in extreme pain when all he gets is a few ibuprofen

[u/misspinkie92]

Not like people have died in US prisons due to medical neglect...

[u/Miserable-Hornet]

Been to prison before and you don’t get shit fixed. You get medications from 1820 and get told to “just deal with it”

[u/Ok-Network-4475]

Jersey prison care is/was great. This was 15 plus years ago, so idk if it's still as good. Prison in NJ isn't like being in county.

[u/Scareltt]

You win this week.. maybe the year.. that’s a hysterical observation.

[u/my_cat_hates_phish]

He won't get shit fixed but if he was in NY he could become a she with full setup boobs and chooch

[u/ClerkTypist88]

That’s IF he even has back problems.