I am currently an inmate in Maguire Correctional Facility here in Redwood City. I’ve had HIV since 1990, AIDS since 1994 and since 1997 I’ve suffered from severe neuropathy due to meds I took in the early ’90s and Hepatitis C.
My reason for writing is I’m in pain 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The medical staff here is doing a good job at saving taxpayer dollars. They issue some inmates Tylenol and Codeine No. 3 for pain while others receive nothing. The severity of your pain doesn’t matter. So after receiving Methadone and Vicodin from my doctors on the street, here I received No. 3’s. I’ve read and heard that inmates in jail and prisons are coddled but here the taxpayers don’t have to worry about that, some of us suffer daily but you the taxpayers save.
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Keep the discussion civilized. Absolutely NO personal attacks or insults directed toward writers, nor others who make comments.
Keep it clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
Don't threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
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Be proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
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