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This woman died in jail detoxing from a drug her physician prescribed her. She was trying to do the right thing and take care of herself after a relapse. postandcourier.com/news/she-died-…
Like most jails, the Charleston jail at the time did not provide suboxone (or, it seems, basic medical care for people in withdrawal). themarshallproject.org/2019/01/29/whe…
Most withdrawal deaths in jail, the person is coming off of heroin or somesuch. This is clearly never OK—withdrawal deaths are entirely preventable with basic medical care like hydration—but clearly the jail is not going to provide heroin. motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
But they CAN provide suboxone. And as more jails begin to do so, “it makes it harder for other prisons or jails to say it’s impossible,” as one attorney told me. themarshallproject.org/2017/03/01/a-b…
