What has been your experience with inmates faking illness?
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Permalink Reply by Dale Bowen on -
Well, Im in a level 5 facility,we have around 1600 offenders. It happens all of the time,with full time staff on site, they know that all they need to say is, I have chest pains,and we have to go into a state of response. Medical has to be at the housing unit in minutes, no matter what they may have been doing.
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Permalink Reply by Jessica L. Stewart on -
I work in a smaller facility, we have around 300 inmates and I've seen my share of fakers. We also have full time nurses but the doctor is only in twice a week. Chest pains is by far the most heard complaint but occassionally we get the seizure fakers as well. The sternum rub is the best thing ever created wakes them right up darn near every time they try it. Best feigned illness I've seen so far is the guy who 'claimed' to have swallowed a razor blade last week. Of course he said he swallowed it, was spitting up blood blah blah blah. The medical department called the ambulance service, they arrived, transported the inmate with two officers to the ER. Numerous x-rays were taken as well as a CT scan and guess what.....NO razor blade to be found. (go figure right?) Come to find out he used the razor to cut the insides of his cheeks (for the spitting blood) then flushed the razor down the toilet. Then the next day the same inmate starts whining about extreme belly pain and spitting up blood again and makes sure to inform us and the nurses that he swallowed the razor blade the day before. This time the Dr. on call said to give him some maalox and prilosec and send him to bed instead of another trip to the ER on the states money. Needless to say he's quit bitching about stomach pain now...now all he complains about is how cold the paper smock is he has to wear 24/7
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Permalink Reply by David Martin on -
Allways faking it just so they can see female staff in medical,I also think it funny how a drug addict who use to shootup is a scared of a needle.........
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Permalink Reply by Jim Hall on -
Wanna be Diabetics Lady in custody for suspended dl, and a DWI 3rd, said she feels "like her blood sugar is way too high and she needs to go to the hospital". Well, we are all trained in dispensing medications, and we have a glucometer (checks blood sugar) that we also all know how to operate. She came to the front, and said she had a "blood sugar checker thingy" in her property and she needed her insulin "the liquid stuff, but I dunno how much to give". Ok, I pull out her glucometer and its so decrepited that it looks like it came out the garbage from 1986. I tell her hold on and Ill get ours. I gave her the machine and she did not know how to draw the blood with the lancet. I, being diabetic myself, pulled out a clean lancet and showed her how to do it. She could never poke herself. I finally said "Here, stick out your finger." and poked her (I being a former Paramedic felt that was ok) and she squealed out loud. I touched the test strip to the blood, and the whole time she is saying "Its gonna be high...I know its thru the roof!"
It was 86. Perfect is 80 - 120. I told her she is NOT diabetic, and she wanted to see if we'd drop the charges against her. She finally broke down and said that her mom gave her the glucometer before she left the house "just in case she gets pulled over and arrested she MAY can get out of the ticket".
I called a Patrol Officer and had her transported to Tarrant County Sherriff Department Jail about 30min later.
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Permalink Reply by Emily McCord on
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we have an i/m who fakes seizures ALL the time if he doesn't get his way! the worst part is that we have to treat it like it's real each time! the good part is the sternum rubs and ammonia... we can tell really fast when it's fake.
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