Jack-good points, however you misinterpreted my meaning. In that I was not suggesting that prisoners SHOULD be treated that way. It was more an observation that it can, and very bloody well likely WILL be done without the slightest bit of care. Even medical emergencies, if they are not so visually dramatic and obvious, as for example a hanging, stabbing, somebody getting boiing sugar-water thrown in their eyes (prisoners add loads of sugar if they attack like that because it sticks to the victim and inflicts greater severity of the burns. Nasty, crude but it happens) or some poor cunt jumps off an upper bunk with a broom handle up their arse trying to off themselves due to the grim conditions, if self-reported and medical care begged for by a prisoner, typically they'll wait at least a week, maybe two, unless they collapse in front of a screw first.
When conditions are that primitive, inhumane and barbaric, and the doctors if they can be called such that attend prisons are primarily interested only in making sure that they do not, with for some political rights based reason, allowing opioid detox on subutex or methadone (subs-buprenorphine, and high-denomination currency inside for non-addict prisoners so they can temporarily alleviate some of the ambient barbarousness of the environment and the viler of its inhabitants, of which there are many), give out anything potentially pleasurable or recreational for any reason, other than detox or maintainence of H addicts, inside you'd probably barey get an aspirin if you snapped your arm severely enough for the broken bone to rip through muscle, tear through and point out of the skin (compound fracture). Somebody gets their head stamped on, or battered senseless with a pool cue then they won't even get to see a doctor unless they are dragged there unconscious. Their rule of thumb basically goes 'if they are physically able to ask for medical assistance then they neither need it nor deserve it'
That is how it is. Seen it, nearly killed because of it.
