Prisoner Solidarity: Access to Medications

During a protest several people were unexpectedly arrested. Most of us did not know each other. There was one older individual who needed access to their medication and kept telling police this. The police had been told repeatedly and rejected the person’s request each time: “Nothing until you’re processed.”

 

Eight of us were sitting in a paddy wagon waiting to be processed by the staff sergeant. When police finally came for one of us, that person refused: “Not until you process the person who needs their medications.”

 

Instead, police called for someone else to get out of the paddy wagon. Without any pre-planning or prompting, that person too refused to get out of the wagon until the person requiring medical attention was processed. Police finally gave in and took the person needing medications to be processed.