CPAP in prison?

WindFlyer · Post by **WindFlyer** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:46 am

What happens when a guy gets tossed into prison? Disregarding the guilty/innocent does he deserve it thing, if he's an OSA patient, does he get CPAP in his cell? Would they say the machine could bet taken apart and made into a weapon? Would they lock the machine in a box and just have the hose and mask coming out of it? Does anyone know?

roster · Post by **roster** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:52 am

Windflyer, What are you planning?

DreamStalker · Post by **DreamStalker** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:52 am

What have you done?

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:55 am

I can think of easier ways to get a free CPAP than doing something guaranteed to toss you into prison!!!

roster · Post by **roster** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:01 am

............William Thomas Meloy, a former inmate at the North Dakota State Penitentiary
(NDSP), brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Dr. Bernard J. O’Neill, an
NDSP doctor, and Kathy Bachmeier, a nurse who is the NDSP’s Director of Medical
Services, alleging they violated his civil rights by failing to provide him with a
continuous positive air pressure machine (CPAP) to treat his obstructive sleep apnea
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(OSA), a condition that causes him to stop breathing while he sleeps.

............

the law was clearly established that a
prison official’s deliberate indifference to an inmate’s serious medical needs violates
the Eighth Amendment. Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104-05 (1976); Jolly v.
-5-
Knudsen, 205 F.3d 1094, 1096 (8th Cir. 2000). To establish deliberate indifference,
a prisoner must prove he had objectively serious medical needs and the official
actually knew of but deliberately disregarded those needs.

Source: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/cir ... 13415p.pdf

It is your right if you have medical proof.

KansasRT · Post by **KansasRT** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:05 am

Around here they will provide you with a CPAP and replace your supples when you request it (within reason) I have sold several CPAP's and supplies to the prisons here. None of my patients have gotten out so I don't know if they get to keep it when they leave. They do get to take it with them if they are transfered. I have visited their "cells" and they do not have it in a box. I had to be cleared and the machine has to be cleared, but after that it is the same as you and me.

roster · Post by **roster** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:10 am

Here is the subject in a prison forum.

http://prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272274

6PtStar · Post by **6PtStar** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:10 am

WindFlyer, now that you know you can have one it is still no reason to go through with a Dasterly Plan.

Jerry

OutaSync · Post by **OutaSync** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:41 am

Just say"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit". It worked for OJ!

danmc · Post by **danmc** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:48 am

I'm sure I'll be able to tell you once my Doc finds out I broke the law and took an interest in my own treatment...

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:20 pm

Taking an interest in your own health treatment is "only" a misdemeanor on the first offense - BUT - changing your therapy pressure is a felony. Three strikes and yer out! Er, IN, prison, for life.

6PtStar · Post by **6PtStar** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:21 pm

danmc wrote:I'm sure I'll be able to tell you once my Doc finds out I broke the law and took an interest in my own treatment...

Oh, can they put you in prison for that? I guess I am in big time trouble!!!

Jerry

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:24 pm

There was a case I read about - in California. A guy on death row needed a transplant, I forget which organ. He was first on the transplant list when the organ became available. Second on the list was a fine upstanding citizen. Guess who got the organ??

There were several court cases filed about this -but in the end the death row guy did get the organ.

Ain't that a crock? The state goes to all that expense for the transplant for a guy who the state is gonna execute - a useful organ goes to waste - and the second person in line might die before another compatible organ becomes available.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:17 pm

Slinky wrote:There was a case I read about - in California. A guy on death row needed a transplant, I forget which organ. He was first on the transplant list when the organ became available. Second on the list was a fine upstanding citizen. Guess who got the organ??

There were several court cases filed about this -but in the end the death row guy did get the organ.

Ain't that a crock? The state goes to all that expense for the transplant for a guy who the state is gonna execute - a useful organ goes to waste - and the second person in line might die before another compatible organ becomes available.

I would have like to have done the operation, he would have died during the removal, and we would have still had the organ for the next person. Jim

roster · Post by **roster** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:20 pm

Slinky wrote:There was a case I read about - in California. A guy on death row needed a transplant, I forget which organ. ...........

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90611&page=1

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