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  1. #11
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    Default Re: Injury Untreated While In Jail

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    Thank you, both, for being professional about the way you answered my posts. It is very much appreciated. Now that you have explained about the repercussions of NOT going to the hospital when she was released for the day and a half, I will be able to give her the explanation next time she calls me.

    When I first wrote a post on this board, I truely expected answers that would be beneficial to my queries. I did not expect to read answers that were meant to belittle, or demean, my intelligence. I may be ignorant when it comes to criminal law but ignorance can be overcome. So can nasty attitudes, if the people who have them choose to make themselves better.

    Thank you both again for your help.
    To be honest, I didn't tell you anything different than was stated by Mr.K. I appreciate you thanking me for my response. However, Senior Judge's response stings because it is true. I am not trying to defend the response, because SJ doesn't need me to do that. The responsibility for taking care of ourselves is OURS. That is the truth and if your friend was addicted to pain meds there was nothing more important to her than getting more of the substance. It is horrible to love someone and care about them more than they care about themselves (addressing addicts).

    The best response to her question to you about wanting to sue the state for poor follow-up to her complaint is "why didn't you care enough to take care of yourself?"

    Her hip pain will do nothing but get worse with age and will always remind her of how she treated herself. It's tough love. I'm not great at it either.

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    Default Re: Injury Untreated While In Jail

    I posted my comment because of the insinuation that I would not post anymore due to questioning my friends not going to the hospital when she was out of jail for the time she was out. I can take sarcasm, I can be very sarcastic myself at times. In my line of work, we use sarcasm and humor to get through the 8 hours. What I have a difficult time dealing with is if I feel like someone thinks they have put me in a position to not be able to say anything more. Like they have gotten one over on me and I have been put in my place. If that was not the intention, then I do apologize for "carrying on."

    Indigo

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    Default Re: Injury Untreated While In Jail

    No apologies necessary.

    I was hasty in my response!

  4. #14
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    My friend sent me a letter she has been sending to attorneys telling them what happened to her in jail. This has more information in it than I originally had. Will this information make any difference. Here it is:

    On the 13th of December, a female was brought into the jail and booked after midnight. two of the inmates went to a female deputy and told her this woman had drugs on her. She went into my friends cell by mistake. My friend was asleep on the top bunk. The deputy grabbed the bottom of her shirt and the back of her pants and yanked her off the top bunk. She hit the wall and fell into the stainless steel sink. My friend said it happened so fast she didn't have any time to react and remembers the other inmates yelling that isn't her, you've got the wrong one. Finally the deputy looked at her and said, "Oh, you're not her" and left the cell. No incident report was filed and no medical treatment was offered. The next morning when the shift changed my friend couldn't move to get out of bed and the deputy told her if she didn't get out of bed on her own, she would get her out. When my friend didn't get out of bed 3 female deputies got her off of the bunk and put her in a chair. She requested medical treatment and the officer told her she was fine. Twenty days later a doctor came in, looked at the bruising on her back, ribs, and hip, prescribed some meds and left. She had a large knot on her hip and an indentation beside it. The medicine that was given to her had a different name on it from her own and in addition to the prescribed meds, the night officer was giving her 12 benedryl a night so she would sleep without having the pain keep her awake. Finally she was moved to the state facility where they told her she would need an orthopedic surgeon to look at her but didn't set up any appointments for her to be checked.

    Apparently she was seen by a doctor but because she was injured by an officer, he wouldn't have her sent for x-ray. She says she has the names and phone numbers of the women who saw what happened to her and they said they will testify on her behalf. The problem is she can't find an attorney to take the case.

    Now, like myself, you have the whole story. Can anything be done, or is it the same as before, because she didn't get treated in the time she was out, she doesn't have a leg to stand on?

    Indigo

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