Mental Help Blocked
Our local jail has healthcare available and every inmate is supposed to have access. The question is whether or not they are allowed that access.
I have been privy to a scenario where an inmate was denied a visit to the mental health nurse because the jail staff was telling the nurse the inmate was going to be housed elsewhere so there was no need to treat them. Only through the nurses insistence did the inmate receive treatment and when the treatment was rendered it was concluded there is a mental issue present.
This blogger has some questions of my own
1. Who are they to decide who does and who doesn’t get treatment?
2. Why was the inmate denied this basic process?
3. Do they care that this inmate who is also a person suffered while requesting to see the nurse and waiting for the nurse to finally demand seeing the inmate?
4. Is the inmate part of such a high profile case that it pissed them off so bad they denied them proper treatment for a mental disorder?
This legal and jail system is getting worse by the day. The jail staff doesn’t care about the welfare of the inmates they house and are supposed to take care of. Why are they even working in such a field if they don’t like it? I tell you, there’s no way I could do that to another human being.
Just a reminder to those that work in our jail, just because a person is there doesn’t make them below you nor does it make you above anybody. They are still people and no matter what your opinion is on why they are there you still have to provide certain fundamentals. Not everybody in there is guilty. You won’t get away with mistreating people for long as somebody will come along one day to ensure it I’m sure.
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