Next time someone says how "cushy" people in prison have it...

[Archae]

Show them this.

STERLING, Colo. — A civil rights lawsuit claims an inmate at the Logan County Detention Center was given a pair of pliers to remove a bad, painful tooth after being repeatedly denied dental care.

In the lawsuit, inmate Mark Traxler, 47, claims a jail employee and a nurse "approached him with a pair of dirty, rusty pliers and a roll of gauze and told him to go back to his unit and have some of the 'fellas' help him with a tooth extraction."

The suit goes on to say Traxler was held down by several inmates, including one known as "Big Jake," but that the extraction caused more pain and more damage to Traxler's teeth.

The lawsuit alleges the extraction occurred in the spring of 2013 and it took weeks for the jail to bring Traxler to a real dentist.

"So he's bleeding profusely, screaming in agony begging for medical treatment. They still won't give it to him," civil rights attorney Davie Lane said. "I don't' think there is any question that this happened. The only real issue in this case is what will a jury do about this?"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/19/inmate-lawsuit-remove-tooth-pliers/23662953/

[SheilaT]

1. In a way, that inmate was lucky to get the pliers.

All too often they are left with no treatment at all for whatever is wrong.

I have a friend who visits inmates, and he's told me a few stories, such as guards leaving a man with a compound fracture to roll around in pain while they completed roll call.

If that's cushy treatment, then those who think so need to spend time in prison themselves.