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Medications
Interview with Charles, m ray, Leon, Jean, Accountant, Hot attorney, Lil Will and Cam
JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Charles: No, but i didn't ask. i am on anti depressants. I
choose not to ask for them because I know they
wouldn't be dispensed properly, nor received in a
timely manner. in theory they will give you meds,
but it will not be a fast process.
m ray: no
Leon: Don't know I didn't need any.
Jean: Let's go back to that. I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and
that was the first thing I told them. They asked if I had any
medical problems, and I said I don't have medical problems, but
I do have a medical problem. I've been diagnosed with breast
cancer, and I'm going to need medical attention. That's how I
got into the infirmary. When it's all said and done, dude, my
boyfriend had to go down to South Padre Island, 'cause that's
where we were living, and get all of my medial records and bring
them to the jail house because they weren't willing to take me
for a mammogram because they thought I was making it up. So
I stayed in the infirmary for probably three months before I got
my first doctor's appointment. I was in the infirmary, and that
wasn't until my boyfriend go tall of the medical records, and
they had something that might have made them think I might
have been sick. If the truth be known, had I not been released
when I had, because I just got done with all my chemo and
reconstruction - that all started immediately when I got out of
jail. I was down there two and a half years ago. If I'd have stayed
in there much longer, I would have probably died. They weren't
about to take care of me. They wouldn't give me any pain pills.
What they gave me was ibuprofen, and I ate those things like
candy. I would trade them for pain pills.
Accountant: No.
And I have a "trait" that causes my health to
fluctuate, and when I buzzed for medical
attention, I was told to "hold on"..........no
one ever showed up.
Hot attorney: No. I was denied basic medical care while in
jail.
Lil Will: dont take them
Cam: No....
JM: How did you get your medications?
Charles: N/A
m ray: it took months to get my meds
Leon: By going to the nurse it took many days sometimes to see the
nurse though.
Jean: They have what they call BYB's, which is By Your Bed. I had control
of my ibuprofen. I had a whole pallet of it. I would take two or
three a day - whatever it took to keep that knot down. My meds
were at my bed, but I didn't have any pain meds. Anything that is
like that, they make you get up for.
Accountant: N/A
Cam: you had to put in a kite to see the nurse and
then wait, wait, wait, wait, put in another kite
to see the nurse and wait some more..finally
about 3 weeks later you see the nurse..they go
through your medical history..then they have you
sign a waiver giving them permission to check
your medical records from other hospitals that
you visited in the past where you were told that
medication was needed and prescribed to you..
JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Charles: I don't know.
m ray: nothing really
Leon: Not sure.
Jean: Probably would have got solitary confinement, is my guess. I've
had some friends there. It's not really solitary. It is, but it's not.
Basically, all it is is a hallway with 8 or 9 beds in it. You have no
day light or TV. It's on the other side of the infirmary, and I had
friends that got out on bail and came back within 3 weeks, and
she was in solitary on the other side of me, and I could throw
candy bars and stuff to her. So it's not real solitary.
Actually, that reminds me about a rule in Dallas County about
when a female inmate sees a guy inmate. When guys are in the
hallway, which, at Dallas County, they don't really have a work
release for women. They do for guys, so if you're going to the
doctor, or you're going down to commissary, or just moving
around the building, they make the guys stand against the wall
with their faces towards the wall so they can't see the women.
You'd see them, and they'd be outside your cell cleaning the
floors and stuff, but for the most part, they were good about
keeping you separated.
Accountant: N/A
Cam: loss of commissary privileges, loss of
visitation rights, and they could even send you
to a tank that has no tv and is what they call
Full restriction tanks..YOU HAVE NO PRIVILEGES
WHAT SO EVER..
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Thank you "concerned" for speaking the truth from the other side of the fence. I know that there has to be ethical and compassionate employees working at the Dallas County Jail, they are just hard to find! Possibly it might have something to do with the "General Order" imposed on the employees of the DCJ, as it appears that speaking out against the horrific stories revealed is less important next to how the "General Order" was being compromised! A system built on justice? So, let's focus on the real issues, which is mans inhumanity to man.
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I used to work there, and was fired for "fraternizing" with inmates ONLY because I gave a damn about the way they were treated and tried to be a better person than they as inmates were used to dealing with ..they are treated like animals literally and everything the inmates have said is very true...I will never understand how people who take an oath and swear to provide quality care to their patients could treat another human so inhumanly!!! It really sucks.
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My son, William, was recently arrested for family violence. Why his woman is not in jail due to her being just as violent to him, I'll never understand. She has even ran him over with her car in the past that required the EMT's and a stay in the hospital. Nothing happened to her. Where is the justice for my son in that case? Now he is in jail and not getting his medication. I intend to call the media and do whatever it takes to insure my son receives his doctor prescribe medications. He was wrong for his actions and should be held accountable. He should be tried for his crimes and all the truths be known about his case. But to be denied his medications by state employees is also a crime.
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I am in the same situation as most of yall.My husband was convicted back in novemmber,when they took him he was a healthy man and now he has 3 bulging disc in his back.his left leg is numb from the knee down and now his right leg is going numb.he has numbness in his groin and is having problems urinating..I have looked on line and with is symptoms he needs back surgery right away.He is in Tarrant County Jail and they dont give a crap about him.he is in constant pain and they wanna give him asprin??? I mean come on now.They just dont want to pay for this because Tarrant County is going broke.But these people are still humans and should not be made to just sit and suffer all day and night.I think we should all get together and file some law suits and maybe then some thigs can get changed for these men and women in jail.I know some one them have done some really bad things but they are still human no matter what.Any one have any suggestions????
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Yes, I do have a suggestion for ALL of the families struggling with torment and suffering with their loved ones at Dallas County Jail! Start calling the US Department of Justice at 202-514-6255 and report your story, as well as collectively state that you believe there should be more Federal Inspectors assigned to investigate the allegations at this county jail! Also, write letters to political, legal, and media officials, as there is power in numbers, and change comes with power!! All of you take notice to this avenue for justice!! Once the media gets enough calls, a reaction will happen!
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My son in Dallas County has had psorias for 15 yrs. Was unable to receive his meds but given cream from infirmry by the nurses. Within a few days he developed a new burning rash over much of his face. It is not psorias....he knows it well but did apply the meds provided to no avail. He returned to nurses and has been refused access to see a Doctor. The nurses are baring ignoring him and meanwhile his condition is worsening to the point of being unbearable and wakening him even if he falls asleep. He has submitted two grievances but no response. What would be the required next step in this process of getting medical attention from a Dr. that can diagnose and treat.
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Just because people commit crimes does not mean that they need to suffer. If by reading Nurse Betty's comments if she is the type of people they have working at the facilities then that makes me really scared for the inmates. I believe they should be punished but to treat them unfairly and not give them medical attention is just inhumane. I hope that u open ur heart lady and realize that they are still people.
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I told a Lt. the same thing about the inmates being human. His response was."I could agrue that point." It made me sick to my stomache. The power these people have over our inmates is terrifing.
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Yes it is so sad they way some of these jailers have let their power go to their heads.They seem to think that just because you are in jail you are no longer human..that you know longer have any rights and now they can treat them any way they wish and nothing can be done about it..Tarrant County jailers are so crooked...
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I worked as a nurse in the George Allen Jail for a year. I've met some of the most seediest, vile and manipulating inmates on this earth (keep in mind this was a maximum security facility). Where the heck do you think you are a hotel or a hospital? You criminals aren't in jail because you've been upstanding citizens it is because you committed a crime. Guess what when you commit a crime in Dallas county and you get caught you go to jail! You have been convicted of a crime and now are being punished. Jail is not a hotel where in which we the employees cater to your every whim. Jail is a scary, disgusting, and a mean place. So if you can't handle it then stop committing crimes. Also one thing I want to know is why are these so called "sick" people going to jail? If you have some terminal illness then you need to be in bed, hospital, or family’s house getting better, not trying to buy crack or prostituting yourself on the street. Don't tell me you weren't getting medication, both because I worked twelve hour shifts and I passed meds for half of the jail twice a day (another nurse passed the other half). Each pass took me two hours to pull thousands of meds from a pyxis then took me three hours to pass the meds. While I passed the meds I would pick up probably fifty kites at each med pass. There were two other nurse that answered kites, tested glucose levels (also gave insulin), saw emergencies, and daily wound care. These two women did this for twelve hours everyday. Plus the medical night shift consists of two nurses that also answered kite, mound care, glucose checks, and see emergencies. We also provided medication for all inmates detoxing for drugs. Also a physician was staffed at George Allen Monday - Friday for eight hours a day. An ob/gyn that saw women once a week. A counselor and a psychiatrist who saw inmates once a week. Lastly dental saw inmates once a week too. Dallas county even offers detox medication for inmates that arrive in book-in that are long term street drug users or alcoholics. Now I've worked in different county jails were they absolutely will not give detox meds and you have to "come down" cold turkey. To sum it up don't commit crimes you will go to jail. If you go to jail don't pretend like you're sick or dying because you take up our time needed for the truly ill. Don't be mad at the jailers or the medical staff we didn't put you in jail, you have no one to blame but yourself. Second the Dallas county inmates aren't paying a single penny for any of the medical care they receive, it comes out of the pockets of law abiding, honest, hard working individuals who aren't in jail. Other county jails actually charge their inmates for each kite they write, seeing the nurse or doctor, and any medication they receive. Finally we nurses care for the individuals that no one else wants to care for i.e. child molesters, rapist, murders, and prostitutes. The Dallas county nurses are contracted to the jail under Parkland Memorial hospital so we get Parkland wages which is considerable less than average salary of a nurse (almost half what the average rate pay for a nurse receives).
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Excuse me, but who do you think you are playing God in your disgusting king pin medical staff???? You chose to work in what you consider a foul work environment, and I pray to God that people like you are never hired to oversee human beings!!! Crying about your salary, then get another job where you can't inflict more suffering, mental torment, and an attitude that distroys the only sense of justice some of those inmates have, HUMAN INTERACTION!!! Commiting a crime and getting your freedom taken away from you is punishment enough, so they are suffering enough for anyone's taste. Some are more deserving than otheers to be locked up, but there are those who could be possible not guilty, did you ever think of that??? This issue has nothing to do with the inmates crimes, but everything to do with why some of them react to staff like you!!! You are probably one of the ones who inflict as much conflict, slow responses to serious medical needs, laugh and enjoy the abuse and neglect, and have the balls to write some repulsive statements like you have on this site!! If you were any kind of nurse at all, you would be making your wages, so your credentials and bed side manner must be a reflection of how your treat your patients now! I wouldn't hire you to empty my patient's bed pans...so think about how nobody would want you working out in public sector, and unfortunately, you nurse the human being that can't fight back on their needs, rights, and circumstances. Ask Corey Bailey how he feel about it...Oh! That's right, he's dead...and the family is suing...Too many loop holes and not enough accountability, and now I know why....You are disgusting to me...Please quit your job and move on somewhere else, and we will see how well you do in the free world with your sick attitude...
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I sympathize with your situation. I'm sure you hear the worst things a human being could ever hear in your daily duties. You sound like you are very overworked and under paid. You also sound very judge mental and dis-heartened about your situation and about those around you. However, Nurses no matter where or who you work for should be understanding, caring, helpful, thoughtful, attentive, considerate, and inclined to give the best care to those you serve. We all know that justice is not and never blind. I'm sure some are there because they made/make very bad choices in life. I'm sure some are there just because they are mean and full of hate for there fellow man kind. I'm sure some are there due to the injustice in our systems. Just as I'm, am sure for those in your profession see the majority of larger pay checks going to your supervisors. It maybe time for you to seek other employment or even a career change. If you can't be and give your best to those you serve, then you too have made a BAD choice in life.
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It was well said Vickie, I just had a more agressive take on the situation. We both concur she needs to seek life else where.
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very well said, Vickie, and I heard the thoughtfulness in the tone of your words. I agree with you totally! Nice job
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George Allen has nothing but lazy fat lookin like they work at walmart correctional officers.. and it's sad that they have employees with your mind-set working there.. The US Department of Justice should definitely take over Dallas County Jail facilities, at least Gorge Allen.
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Its really sad that the nurses would think like that. where is the compasion? NO matther what they are still humanes and still have rights and still have families that love and worry about them.and even sader is that you cant even right with the jails and win,because all the judges will stand up for the jails and screw you in the end? Ib know some of these men hav done really really bad things but they get treated worse than animals in Tarrant County Jail..How do these people get away with treating them the way they do?? How do they sleep at night?
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You are a fucking fool. Go to hell with your fat ass !
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MY BROTHER IS IN JAIL NOT CUZ HES BAD CUZ HE DID WRONG CHOICES IN THE PAST AND KNOW HES IN JAIL FOR CHARGES THAT DONT MAKE SENCE THATS Y HE IS FIGHTING THE CASE..AND TO THAT NURSE ITS KINDA STUPID HOW U POSTED THAT HERE NOBODY TOLD YOU TO WORK THERE YOU MUST BE LIKE THEM CROOKED COPS OUT THERE I HATE PEOPLE LIKE THAT
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does anyone know how to put money into an account for someone who is in the jail? And i phone number for the George Allen Jail ?
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214-761-9025
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WOW, sounds like you got it all figured out huh? Too bad they can't teach compassion, you might have made a decent nurse who could be hired by a regular health care institution, or a hospital!!!
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I agree, and I personally have been to jail a couple of times and the murders and crooks get more priviledges than people in there for traffic tickets.. Its a shame how they treat you in there I understand fully we have to pay our debt to society but why the rude attitudes and mistreatments i dont understand.. The employees just need a taste of their own medicine and maybe the inmates would be treate like humans and not anmimals.
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Just because my husband is in jail does not mean he is a bad person. He just made some bad choices and yes he is paying for them now, but just because that he is there doesn't mean he is a horrible individual. He should be one of the least ones in jail, there are people out there everyday commiting crimes still til this day. Yes my husband blames him self so he is trying to serve his time and learn a lesson from this. But there are still high risk criminals out in the streets and when people like my husband that is not a high risk criminal is doing his time so why can't the main ones that commit crimes everyday be where he is at?
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This nurse is a JOKE!! Great example of why Dallas county operates the way it does...no one person is better than another. Those inmates are in there serving their time and should be treated like every other human is treated! Sounds like maybe you don't like your job Miss Nurse then get a new one!
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I've never been to jail, but judging by the comments of this so called nurse, I can see how unprofessional the "employed staff" are at this jail. No bounderies what so ever and so so bitter.
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Further more, these inmates are receiving their punishment. They are being punished and serving their time, it doesn't mean they have to continue being judged by people like you. "Let him without sin through the first stone. .."
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Amen...
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Oh and get it right! There is also people who go to jail in Dallas that DIDNT commit any crime! Thats just how DALLAS ROLLS!
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SOOOOOOO true..and Tarrant County is just the same.They dont care if you are innocent they just want convictions no matter how they get em.
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Oh and get it right! There is also people who go to jail in Dallas that DIDNT commit any crime! Thats just how DALLAS ROLLS!
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If you have a problem with working in jails then don't. It seems like the jails will hire anybody and i beat you couldn't find a job so thats why you work at a jail facility.
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First of all patients get seen by priority, some of this inmates have gone years without meds and any kind of medical care even though there is so many government funded programs!They show up in jail and demand meds!! Not all that is written is true!! How about working in any medical floor and experiencing instead of hearing!!
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What you are referring to happens in the free world. Priority seems not to apply to the incarcerated!!! Why don't you read the Federal Reports from the US Dept. of Justice, and there you will SEE the volumes of foul incidents in regards to poor or inadequate medical care. There is a reason DCJ failed inspection 7 years in a row. These federal programs you speak of are a paper shuffle, because if you are homeless, have no ID, can't provide an address, have no resourced background to file the extensive paperwork, they get lost in the system. I am in Emergency Medicine, so I speak from experience
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My aunt has been their serveral weeks and have not been dispense her meds properly and somtime she does not get them and she hast blood clotting issues right now her legs are swollan with infection and you would be the first to know if something happens as we fear for her life right nowW somebody already died a few days ago in the medical department in their room and its being investigated right now so this jail is full of neglect peroid and they messed with the wrong family cause we will see to the bottom of what going on in that jail!
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that is horrible. . .I'm so sorry
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re: pain mgt meds
I never suggested I would expect them to allow him to keep in cell, nor would I want them to. Was that a serious question? Have I ever seen a drug user in jail? Would think most have. I hope you are not ignorant enough to be referring to a patient being treated for pain management as a drug user....?! While, yes one becomes addicted to narcotics, in response for it to be medically necessarry to function, at a minimum lelpl |
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Sorry, Phil, I was just trying to help - what most doctors consider necessary pain management medicine the jails consider unnecessary. That's why they usually only give you ibuprofen in jail. I am not suggesting that somebody taking pain medication is a drug user, I'm just telling you that the jails usually don't make a distinction. Best of luck.
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my partner is in north tower. I an desperately trying to gethlm mess to help take away excruciating pain from spine injury. I am running around in circles. Nobody cares. I jumped thru hoops to get a letter from doctor, all new prescriptions filled totalling $300 that are just sitting in trunk of car... Ugh. How does one even reach TFC medical area? The website says this I'd policy. But, seems to be impossible. Even doctor is floored at lack of care or concern of these inmates, but more particularly the ones in dire need of meds. Anyone help????
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If they are pain pills unfortunately they may just not let them have them. I had a friend in dallas county and all they would give him was ibuprofen, but if the pain is from a spine injury maybe you'll get them to give him a break.
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