For some reason began going down a rabbit hole thinking about this. Let’s say you are blind, and reliant on a guide dog, but end up in prison for a non-violent crime like possession of illegal drugs. Are you allowed to keep the dog? No, right? But if you are entirely reliant on the guide dog to perform daily tasks, how do you manage in prison? What about people who are seriously disabled in other respects, like wheelchair users or those missing limbs, or those with serious mental disabilities? I’m asking for answers both from countries that actually treat prisoners like humans and the US
(US)For people who have conditions requiring regular medication (diabetes, organ transplant recipients, etc)… i have generally heard that prescriptions are confiscated, and they are frequently dead by the time the drugs are approved.
So many stories of people needing their medicine, and going into spams, but the cops just say it is all fake and purposely ignore the person.
Cops are trained to always assume the person they are interacting with is lying to them, so it makes sense they would think complaints about medical needs are just a ploy of some kind. That is why they ignore people saying they can’t breathe, much less someone who tells them that they need medication or other medical attention.
ACAB.
More or less, yep. Privatizing the legal slavery of targeted populations has worked wonders for the Justice™ system here in the US. 🤦🏾♂️
I’m not confident anyone in this thread really knows what they’re talking about
Most states have medical prisons to detain those with special needs.
Here is an example of one.
https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/cmf/
Sometimes they’ll be paroled if they are Low risk. That way the tax payer isn’t financially responsible.
Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.
Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.
Medical care in US prisons is largely handled by a few for-profit companies that make money by providing inadequate care or refusing care at all. Prisoners routinely die from medical neglect. Healthcare behind bars is more capitalism, not less.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252
Oh, and healthcare is not a right, it’s the State’s duty to care for people in it’s custody. That means prisoners have no agency over their care. For example if you’re arrested at an accident, the EMTs gain consent from the police, not the patient. This is how EMTs can administer anti-psychotics and strong sedatives on the sidewalk after the pigs have kicked your ass.