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Humans should NOT have to BEG JAIL STAFF, JAILERS AND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS to treat them HUMANELY. The following story highlights what one person at Warren County Jail, in Bowling Green, Kentucky has had to endure. Thank you for reading!
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(This is the letter mailed to: "Cookie Crews," Commissioner and to the "KY - DOC")
February 15, 2022
To whom it may concern at Ky DOC,
My name is ********* and I am currently lodged at the Warren County Regional Jail's Class D Program in Bowling Green, Ky serving time on a assault under extreme emotional distress.
I'm writing this letter to beg for help in getting a medicine that is essential in slowing the progresion of MULTIPLE SCLOROSIS (M.S.), a medicine I have been perscribed for at least 9 months with no med still in sight, or hope as to when it will be available. The medicine's name is "Gileynia" and is manufactured through "ACREEDO Specialty Pharmacy's" in Nash TN. This med slows the life changing dibilitating effects of M.S. and since incaceration on ********, my symptoms and effects from have termendously been effected. I have been gave ever excuse from WAITING IN MAIL to IT COST $10,000.00.
Here at jail still with no time estimate of if or when I will receive this med I so so so very much need. Not to be a (?) when I complete my obligation to the state.
Thank you so much for your time and any help you can be in this matter. In closing, I would like to thank you for your time in reading this and any help you can offer at a timely & healthy resolve to this matter. Thank you once again!!!
Sincerely Yours,
*******
P.S. Sorry for shakeyness of first page was wrote late one night and apart of not having meds is tremors.
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RESPONSE: FROM Harley Allen, @ Division of Local Facilities, DOC
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
*********:
Your letter regarding your concern at the Warren County Regional Jail was forwarded to this office for review and response.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections does NOT have regulatory authority or oversight of medical treatment. The medical staff are operating under their state issued medical license and are bound by the tenets of that license.
However, based on your reported medical condition, I have been in communication with JAILER STEPHEN HARMON and he advises that the Medical Department at the jail has been working closely with you to ATTEMPT to get an alternative medication that MIGHT meet your needs related to his MS. They have exchanged information with your neurologist as recently as twice last week. The medical provider over the jail WANTS to TRY another medication first TO SEE IF it could accomplish the same results.
Sincerely,
Harley Allen
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CONCLUSION:
In this case, the person being medically neglected had MS (Multiple Sclerosis). He had been on the same medication on the outside of jail for the previous 9 months. He implored medical staff for his meds, but was told that 'they were in the mail' or that 'they cost too much'.
Sound familiar? Another inmate previously quoted, said that JAILER STEVE HARMON had yelled at the person needing medical care, saying that they were costing his jail too much money and that he needed that money for other things. *(See previous petition updates for more info on that.)
After much distress and worsening of his symptoms, including but not limited to hand tremors, he opted to write to the DOC, Commissioner Cookie Crews and was redirected back to "Harley Allen" who seems to be handling the medical complaints coming from this facility.
Harley once again puts the blame back onto the medical staff and says that there's really nothing DOC can do about it.
He did at least contact JAILER STEVE HARMON, who once again provided the 'perfect' answer. Never accepting accountability for anything he or his staff does wrong . . . he says . . . Oh yeah! we just spoke to the doctor two days ago and we've talked twice in one week to the neurologist. (not an exact quote)
***They had a few weeks to provide this person some sort of medicine for his MS, but waited until the inmate wrote a letter of complaint to DOC.
I don't know what the outcome of this person's situation was, but I would love to know.
One last thing, did you notice the terminology used in the response that Harvey Allen conveyed from JAILER STEVE HARMON? Really the message wasn't totally clear, what I heard was:
- ATTEMPT to get an alternative medication.
- MIGHT meet your needs related to his MS.
- Medical provider over the jail WANTS to TRY another medication FIRST.
- TO SEE IF it could accomplish the same results.
***I'm sorry, but if they were trying to convince a dieing man that help was on the way, I would say they failed with that pathetic and unsympathetic wording.
Many blessings being sent out to this person today, WHOEVER YOU ARE.
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