From The Tributary:
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer who arrested Carl Rainbolt in February carefully gathered the 77-year-old’s medications, bagged them up and took them to the jail. But, Rainbolt said, he didn’t get any of his six prescriptions while he was locked up in Duval County and it was four days before he got his daily insulin shot.
“I repeatedly told them the whole time I was there that I was a diabetic,” Rainbolt recalled. “I said, ‘I need to take this medication every morning,’ and that was like water on a duck’s back. It just rolled off. No one cared.”
The Tributary found at least a dozen people who said they didn’t get their prescriptions while jailed between December and June. Deaths in the Duval County jail have tripled since Armor Correctional Health Services started handling health care – with about four deaths per year from 2012 to 2017 and about 13 deaths per year since 2018. Continue reading >>>
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