I don't know if people are just really interested in prison topics or if people are interested in the Carmelo Anthony situation, but yesterday's video when we talked discussed the Carmelo Anthony situation and what I think his next couple of days, weeks, and months may actually look like, um it got a lot of views in comparison to my regular video. So, um we're going to try a a another prison topic video and cuz I'm trying to understand, do you guys like prison topics or if what? Or was it just because Carmelo Anthony is a hot topic right now? But, either way it goes, um I am a former correction officer, so um I I could talk about this a little bit more. Um so, on that video, someone a subscriber left a comment and it was something along the lines of pretty much what happens to inmates with uh uh medical issues or serious medical issues, something like dialysis or things like that. So, that's what sparked up the idea for me to talk about um you know, medical for inmates. Like, how does that whole process work? You know, what what happens if you got a toothache or if you got uh you know, you you may have cancer or something like that. You know, what happens, right? So, uh we're going to discuss that today. So, first and foremost, um if inmates are feeling ill, they can obviously, if it's serious, really serious, like let's say an inmate just got into a fight or something like that, they would automatically go down to medical, you know, once it's broken up, they would go down to medical. But, but let's not talk about that. Let's just say >> [music] >> you got a stomach bug or whatever. You're just not feeling a little you're feeling a little off, right? They have um a inmate could put in what's called a a sick call slip, okay? It's either it's like a form or they could write it on a piece of paper. If there's no more forms left and they try to go to the CO, be like, "Yo, can I get a sick call slip?" You might not have any left, okay? Uh so, they could write it on a piece of paper. Just, you know, name then what's your medical issue or whatever. And then you drop it in a sick call box. Now, typically some somewhere along in the evening time um on the 3:00 to 11:00 shift, but more towards towards the end of the shift um a CO is going to come around and collect the sick call slips. Now, it's put into a box. So, it's kind of like a and discreet in a way or whatever. Um So, they're going to come take all the sick call slips and stuff like that or whatever. So, now um they're going to make out the list of every cell block, housing unit, whatever, however many inmates got to go got have sick call for the next day. Cuz sick call is it it'll be in the morning the next day. So, let's say it's that evening. Inmates are putting in for the sick call slips, whatever they're dropping in the box. Let's say around 9:00 10:00 at night, the CO comes around, collects all the sick call slips. And then he brings it to the infirmary or wherever he brings it to. Um and then they will make out the list. Like, so, housing unit 1A, housing unit 1B, or cell block C, you know, cell block A, whatever, right? And they're going to make out the list of all the inmates' names that um have to come down for sick call the next uh morning. So, that's what happens in the evening time, right? And then now let's go on to the that the next shift, which would be the overnight shift. Um sometime really early in the morning, typically around like 4:00, 4:00 or 5:00, like around 4:00 4:00 or so. Um Like yeah, like 4:00. Um a CO is going to drop off a paper. And on that paper it's going to have all the names of the inmates that have sick call in a couple of hours, right? So you you take it, you post it up, or you can let the inmates know, whatever, right? So it's it's typically the way I did it. Um Uh when I worked overnights, I would just tape it up to the board, uh whatever, and the inmates could come up in the morning, whatever, and they could look at their name. Okay, they they know they have sick call, right? I'm not going waking up the inmates at no 4:00 in the morning, okay? So, you know, anyway, so that's how I would do it. Um and then, you know, they would go to sick call. Now, whatever their medical issue is or whatever, it's a whole bunch of them waiting down there in the infirmary, and the infirmary is like the the the jail like medical facility or whatever, right? Um but it's a it's a quick fast one. They're not taking care of no real big issues. Um so they would go down to the infirmary or whatever, and then they would have their appointment with their doctor or dentist or whatever the case may be. Let's say they have an eye issue, uh the eye doctor may only be there a couple of days out the week, not every day. Um so they whatever, right? So when they go down there, let's say it's a serious issue that's going on. Uh to for the for the staff, for the uh the facility not to take on so much risk, they're probably going to schedule outside appointment, right? So a trip. And they would get some COs together or whatever and okay this inmate has a serious medical problem or whatever. We can't treat it here or whatever. Let's send them to the outside hospital. So now a trip would would happen and the inmate would go to a outside hospital. So your regular hospital when you get sick, he the you know, a regular hospital, okay? There'll be COs that will bring them there um and they'll do a more you know, in-depth see what's going on yada yada yada, right? So now that can happen that that happens and depending on what hospital he goes to and depending on the situation um he [snorts] can go to a hospital where um there's like a inmate portion to it like a a jail portion of it that's designed for inmates inside your regular hospital or it would be a reg- like a regular hospital he'll be in the emergency room just like you, you know what I mean? Stuff like that. Um but here in New York State there are certain um hospitals that also have a inmate portion built into it so they would be uh kept separate. Um and and stuff like that so you really wouldn't see them in the general public, but um the prison got to be near that hospital and stuff like that. So for the most part um inmates would go to a regular hospital and be seen, you know, obviously by regular doctors and stuff like that. Then they'll do their diagnosis and and all of that stuff. Now, in the case of someone having dialysis, right? Let's say there is a inmate that has that's on dialysis and they you know, they got to go get their treatments every day and stuff like that or whatever, right? One or two things will happen. Either every day the inmate will be at the at the regular housing at the regular facility, right? His regular prison. And have a trip every day or whenever he has to go do his dialysis or whatever. And then every morning inmate inmate Jones is going out on a trip. There's going to be two COs that take him out on a trip. It's going to be the same thing every single day. Or he could get admitted to a or transferred to an um another jail or another another prison that has like a hospital kind of built into it. So, there's a couple of things that can happen. One, he can get transferred to a prison that has a hospital built into it. Not like sick call. Sick call is like that's like going to like the the urgent care for inmates, right? If you I'm trying to put it into the better words that I can say, but sick call is like or the infirmary is like going to you know, urgent care. All right? Where but they could do minimum stuff, yada yada yada, but it's not that advanced. Now, some prisons have hospitals built in them. There's a separate building. And it's like more in-depth. It might hold maybe 20, 30 inmates. And these are guys that are like ill, terminally ill, stuff like that. They got nurses and stuff working on them all the time. You might have dialysis treatments going on over there. All that type of stuff. It's a little bit more in-depth. They could go to a spot like that. Um So, that that's an option. They can either get transferred to a a prison like that. Or they they're when they go on their outside visits or their um medical trips, they would either go to their medical trip instead of being at a outside hospital or something like that, it might be at a facility like that. So, you'll just be taking an inmate to another prison, but to the hospital part. And then they'll do their treatment there, and then you bring them back to the jail that the the prison that they're they're at. Or the last option is they would go for their regular treatments at the hospital or wherever it is that they got to do their uh dialysis work and stuff like that. And then And then so, moving on into that um there's a time where an inmate passed away on me, okay? All right, I'm I'm going to tell you a story about the time an inmate uh passed away on me. I literally watched this guy pass away, okay? Um so, this was my first year This was uh within my first year in corrections. And this stuff doesn't happen all the time. Most COs will probably never even experience this. It's It's It's crazy. Um but the prison that I was working at was actually far away from my home. It was like uh like 2 hours away. Uh it was No, it was like an hour and a half away. But there was a hospital that Remember I told you that there are certain hospitals that have inmate um like jails in them, you know, like where like your regular local hospital has a inmate portion to it and you they won't be mixing with the general public. So, there's one of those hospitals that was like around an hour away from my home. So, it was it was shorter It was It was faster for me to get to that hospital than to go to the my actual uh working uh uh prison. So, a lot of times if they had um inmates at the hospital or something like that, they would just assign me to go to the hospital versus going to the prison because it's I could get there faster. So, it it worked out. They Hey. So, in one summer, there was an inmate that had cancer. And he um you know, I was I was assigned to him pretty much uh every 3 to 11 shift, I would go, you know, and and and watch this guy whatever. And um cuz we would do like shift change at the hospital. And um in the beginning, he was all right. Like he was talking and stuff like that. The inmate was talking, watching TV or whatever. But as the days and weeks, I watched this guy for probably like 2 weeks, and as to you know, you could see him you know, his time is up, you know what I mean? And so, towards the end there, there was like the last couple of days or whatever, the it was me and another CO. It was always me and a different CO or whatever. And since I was on this guy a lot, um the old-timers is like teaching me what to do if he does pass away. So, it's like this one the the last day when he does pass away, they're coaching me up. They're like, "Yo, you got to do this, do this, do this, do this." And I'm like a nervous wreck because I'm new. I'm still new. You know what I mean? Like it's my last like I mean, it's my first year. So, like I'm new to this. I never I don't know nothing for real. I'm still wet behind the ears. And this particular day, a lot of the times I was the younger officer, you know? But this particular day, I was with an officer that was that had less time than me. So, I was the senior guy. And I'm like, "Oh my goodness." Cuz you know, if you're not the senior guy, you could Yo, you know what I'm saying? You follow his lead. You're not the leader. It's like you follow him. But this particular time, I'm I'm the senior guy. And um Anyways, the guy ends up passing away, okay? Um we're sitting there in the room. He ends up coding. Like 30 people running that room, man. And you just got to get out the way. It's like, "Get out the way." You got to sit at the door like stand at the door. And it's like a bunch of nurses coming in, a bunch of doctors coming in, and everything, you know? And um So, they're working on him. They're doing the chest compressions. They're doing the You can hear the bones cracking. You can hear it's over. This guy is cooked. He's He's done. Done up. Out of here. Sent to the afterlife, man. And um A- after that process, there's some paperwork that has to be done, but it's very difficult. The paperwork part is actually easy, but it's difficult to get it done because the way it works mad people come in that room, and then when it's done everybody disperses. Like it's just like, "What?" So now you got to find as the CEO, you got to find the doctor who who did the time of who's pronouncing the time of death and everything like that because they got to fill out paperwork. But the problem is there's like 30 doctors in there. Like it's it's insane. You got nurses, doctors, respiratory people. They're all just in there. And so whatever, we had to get all of that paperwork done and stuff like that. I actually ended up did I did find a person or whatever. It was a It was a lady doctor. She was very nice and stuff. And she signed the paperwork whatever, but she knew I was I'm wet behind the ears, man. She knew. Like it's like, "Yo." So after that um we're just I'm I'm just sitting in there with a dead body, honestly. Um Kind of awkward. Okay. Um because at that time now you're just waiting for um for you to sign for you to sign the the you know, for them to bring them down to the morgue and you got to you're going to sign it over to um sign the body over to the to the hospital or whatever the case may be and stuff like that. Um you know, but during that that process like if an inmate is having cancer and stuff like that, family can come and visit. Um this guy, he didn't you know, his family didn't come and visit him and stuff like that whatever, but um yeah, it's just it's just um it's it's a lot. Um but yeah, that that's typically what happens with more medical with with more difficult medical situations. There's different medical um, facilities that they can go to, you know, they they can either just go to the hospital. Right? Or they can go to uh, a prison that has a hospital built into it. Um, you know, and you know, get their treatments and their work and stuff like that done there. Um, if it's something, you know, less difficult, you know, let you know, something minor, then they would just go down to sick call, you know, let's say you got a stomach bug or something. Go down to sick call, get some Pepto-Bismol and call it a day or something. You know what I'm saying? Or let's say you got a headache. They'll go down there and give you some Tylenol. They give you Tylenol for everything. So, it's like, you know, you go down there, all right, whatever. You know, so those are different things that happen. Um, I got some notes here. Let me just look over my notes and see if I'm missing anything. Um, yeah, um, yeah, inmates can come visit, you know, uh, you know, especially for outside uh, you know, it would obviously it would be supervised, but um, if a if a inmate does have um, something serious like that, they could get permission from the family could get permission from the jail and be able to come come to the outside hospital and visit their family member or whatever, but a lot of times uh, with inmates, their family don't, you know, especially if you're probably a lifer or something like that and and at that time in my career, I was working at a maximum security prison, so I'm working with a whole lot of uh, inmates that's doing a lot of time. They're doing life, they're doing 100 years, 60 years, you know, 25, 35, you know, like like like uh, Anthony uh, uh, Carmelo Anthony, he got a 35-piece. He he going to max, you know, so that's where I started off my career in a maximum uh security prison. So, um yeah, there different things like that. Um medical treatments you know, it could either be taken care of in-house or outside. If it's taken care of outside, then you know, obviously COs will be with him at all times and stuff like that. Woo. So, that's that. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. Um Yeah, a little different, you know, I don't really talk about prison topics. Uh but the reaction that we got from the last video I'm like, wait, hold on. People might actually be interested in this stuff, you know what I mean? So that's that, man, but uh hopefully you guys got a little a little bit of insight of what what can happen and and stuff like that um with inmates with medical issues and and and stuff of stuff like that. Um And the same thing with COs, like if COs get hurt and stuff like that they would they would uh you know, they would they would send them to the hospital, you know. Um sometimes if it's a big deal, they'll call the ambulance. The ambulance will come to the jail or come to the prison and you know, >> [music] >> you will go by ambulance. If you got to go by ambulance, then you know, another CO will be with you. Um and the same thing with inmates, you know, another CO will be you know, the COs will be in the ambulance with you. One will be driving the van and trailing, and then one uh CO will actually be in the ambulance with the inmate and stuff like that. Kind of like how we see on these body cam videos if they got to go to the hospital, you'll see a cop follow with them or and then you'll see a cop, you know, riding in the ambulance with the with the suspect or whatever. So, it's the same kind of thing. But, uh yeah. So, I'll catch you guys in the next video. >> [music]