Sepsis is 'very treatable.' For inmates, it's often a death sentence.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. That doesn't excuse the attitudes

or the outright neglect. Refusing to give prisoners their medications, for instance, that they were prescribed. Not listening to pregnant prisoners who are in labor, forcing them to give birth unattended in their cells or miscarry alone in their cells and perhaps even die from that. Or what happened to Ricky over the course of several months. That's just criminal neglect.

I will hand it to a federal prison in Tennessee. When I worked in a cardiology unit there, we had a repeat patient who was a federal prisoner who had some kind of mysterious chest pain/heart complaint. It took several hospital stays for the doctors to figure out what was wrong with him. It was some kind of obscure electrical problem which eventually required him to get, if I remember correctly, some new-fangled (at the time) type of pacemaker (not an ICD, but a double-barreled variety that worked on both atrial and ventricular sides). He was a pretty nice guy who was in prison for some kind of fraud. His guards were generally good-humored too. We actually enjoyed having him on our unit.