The Department of Justice is eyeing the death of Larry Eugene Price, Jr., a mentally ill man who spent a year in jail because he couldn't pay $100 in bail.
, based in Oklahoma City, of negligent care and civil rights violations. The sources declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Specifically, the investigation found inmates were not being screened or getting health assessments as they entered the facility; were receiving inadequate acute care, including emergency needs being ignored, and lacked treatment for chronic, complex diseases, including diabetes and hypertension.
And yet another inmate texted:"Women on their periods are provided with three hygiene products a day, while the minimum necessary would be to change every four hours and if a woman bled through, they were not provided with clean laundry." "The practice of charging inmates fees to access medical care, as implemented at SCADC, is unconstitutional because it has the effect of deterring access to necessary medical care," the report found. In fact, this policy led to several women who believed they were pregnant to not seek out medically necessary care because they knew they couldn't pay.
He added that even if a co-pay was only $4,"it might as well be $4 million" for someone who has no income."You can't just transfer your free-world sensibilities to this very different environment," he said. "It is reprehensible." Tylek said."You are denying people basic access to medical care based on their ability to afford it in an environment where people who are low-income, are struggling financially, are disproportionately represented...In many cases, these are people who can't afford bail. They can't afford their own freedom and here you are charging them as a captive audience for, in most cases, subpar medical care.
The state's Crisis Stabilization Units are 24-hour facilities operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences that can take on people in crisis, including those with mental health emergencies. They were established to provide acute mental health care to people who would otherwise wind up in jails or emergency rooms.
She said that even when a jail was under oversight, the fact that it would often be alerted before DOJ visits gave it a chance to clean up before inspections.
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