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Medications

Interview with Shawanda Miller, Jeremy and Chuck

JM: Did you always have access to necessary medications?
Shawanda Miller: Only when the nurse came around which I believe was 3 times a day. Before you didn't have to pay for aspirin, etc., but now they charge you.
Jeremy: Nope. I turned myself in with my medications, and the nurse wouldnt give it to me the first night because she said she had to verify it through my doctors......
Chuck: It was kinda limited. I got swimmers ear in there and that was pretty hard to get peroxide... Hard to get medical attention. They just give you asprin for everyhting.

JM: How did you get your medications?
Shawanda Miller: Only through the nurse.
Chuck: The guys who get their meds mostly have mental health problems. Nurse would come in and yell out "meds" 3 times a day and you'd go and line up for them.

JM: What types of punishments were incurred for abuse of drugs? Did you ever witness this?
Shawanda Miller: Loss of good time, segregation from what I've heard.
Chuck: They'd put you in lock down over at the max unit.