Bell County Jail inmate (Air Force veteran) says medical needs not being met

[TexasTowelie]

The handwritten letter from an inmate in the Bell County Jail begins like a voice reaching up from the bottom of a well, faint yet powerfully insistent: “To Anyone Who is Listening,” it says.

Bobbi Battishia White, 41, has been in the Bell County Jail for nearly five years awaiting trial on three felony charges. White, who has multiple sclerosis, and others reached out to the Herald because they say that White’s civil rights have been violated by the jail-contracted medical services provider, Wellpath.

“My health is not properly being taken care of,” White wrote. “The jail isn’t handicap-accessible. I have to stand to shower and talk on the phone. It’s very hard to do such a simple task.”

MS is a debilitating disease that leaves the brain and spinal cord damaged. There is no cure and it can render a person unable to walk, according to the Mayo Clinic.

‘I just want her to be okay’

White told the Herald that the medical staff is constantly short of her prescription and over-the-counter medications, vitamins and other items she needs to treat her MS, and that glasses she was prescribed last year still have not arrived.

Read more: https://kdhnews.com/news/crime/bell-county-jail-inmate-says-medical-needs-not-being-met/article_0277c4f0-1af0-11ec-b198-db7172251ab8.html

Why was she being in jail for over three years before the public ever heard the word COVID?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Anyone who thinks that inmates have their medical needs met is delusional.

Oh, and the "Three hots and a cot" is very much fantasy. Inmates don't get three hot meals a day, they really don't. And medical needs are rarely addressed.

I have a good friend who has reached out to inmates over the past twenty or more years. He's welcomed several into his home, to live with him while they adjust to non prison life.

Through him I've learned a lot about the realities of prison life. It's not pretty. He's lost money, helping these men. One crashed his car while fleeing from cops. Another crashed a car my friend had underwritten. Not good.

More to the point, life in prison is not at all easy or good. Nothing at all like "three hots and a cot" would imply. As indicated in the OP, basic needs are simply not addressed. The example in that is not at all unusual. Actually, it's highly usual, as sad as that seems.

[2naSalit]

2. +1