My grandmother was a nurse in a prison for about 3 years. She was a general health nurse at the time, but for the rest of her career she'd been a psych nurse, and she said she'd make recommendations for inmates to see psychologists or be admitted to psychiatric wards, and she said it never happened until something really bad happened (ie, a suicide attempt or psychotic episode that hurt someone). They just thought she was naive and being manipulated by inmates, because mental health problems were just a "cop out." That's actually why she left; she felt like working there was violating the terms of having a nursing license.
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- And another girl who was there had a really severe anxiety/panic type disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, and they refused her her medication.
Yeah, and you'll need a lot of money for a good enough lawyer, because the government will have the best of the best.
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- @ Kurtni
That and the fact that you have to pay someone to sue someone. I can't get a public prosecutor for free, only a defender. It's bullshit.
(Dru, do you want this thread to be specifically about jails or the legal system as a whole? I feel like we keep bringing up other parts of the justice system, but if that's off topic of what you made the thread for, we can stop.)
June 26th, 2012 at 05:25pm