It is well know to those who have ever spend any time in jail or prison that the bars and razor wire are not there to keep prisoners in but everyone else out. As a former medic, I should have brought this up years ago but I figured what was the point, nobody will care. Even if they don't at least I told what I witnessed as it still goes on today. In Macomb County Jail, which is located in Michigan there is a lot of corruption and lies which I suspect go on all over the state and country. Phone cards anyone?

First, lets get it out of the way, what was a medic doing time in jail for? Drugs is the simple answer, poverty, lies,  and not having my prescription medicine in the bottle is the short answer.

My time was completed over six years ago but the violation of the doctors and nurses Hippocratic  oath is still being ignored today. Maybe they are good people but it is said "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing". This is what happens in Macomb county jail and all over the country.

You show up in booking and depending on how many people have been brought in, you will be there around 12-36 hours. This is usually after the 24-36 hours you just spent at a local police station cramped in a cell alone or as in Warren dumped in with 12 to 30 people. That day we were leaving as the food cart pulled up with the see through ham "sandwich's". The guard said " we have to go let them eat at county". It had been thirty some hours since I'd eaten and would now be another 17. At the time I was 6'1 149lbs and hadn't ate days prior to coming to this refuse for the poor, I was starving.

Once at county, it is mostly waiting and if it is summer is really hot, if winter extremely cold. I could go on about the deplorable conditions, lacking of all empathy and justice especially since most are there for non violent drug and traffic charges. Driving on a suspending, possession of weed, and probation violation fill the block.  If you have an opiate addiction you are sent to the "medical" section that houses inmates with diabetes, heart problems, and other life threatening illnesses.  This is where the oath is broken everyday with flat out lies.

When an inmate has a heart problem the nurse will write down he needs to be on a heart monitor as it should be. Around noon the guard walked around the bars and called out our names then would ask "Smith" how's the heart monitor? The inmate looking down and around at only himself and the issued clothing would say just fine. And so it goes on and on, people with life threatening illnesses are documented to be on heart monitors and other medical equipment only to not have any. I wonder if they even have a heart monitor I doubt they do. Even in the medical section with one stressed out nurse on full time duty there is no such thing. There is suppose to be a nurse watching the inmates but there's not. She is always on medication runs, giving "medicine" like aspirin for people with severe pain.

No heart monitors for people with severe heart problems and aspirin when in a hospital they'd be on a morphine drip. You can dismiss this and say these criminals with heinous crimes such as driving without a license and possession of marijuana don't deserve medical and that's your choice but when they document inmates with life threatening illnesses as being on machines and they are not it is them who should be on the other side of the bars.