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| Inmate accuses jailer of stealing medicine |
| By Lexington Herald-Leader |
| Published: 06/24/2004 |
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A deputy jailer in McCreary County (Ky.) stole medication from prisoners and gave it to others to sell or took it "to get high," an inmate has alleged in a federal lawsuit. The deputy jailer, however, said Bobby Ray King lied. King has a long criminal record and no credibility, said deputy jailer Greg Heath. "We've practically raised him in here," Heath said at the jail yesterday. King, 32, claimed in a lawsuit that McCreary County Jailer Scott Jones repeatedly denied King's requests to see a doctor over a period of eight months while he was in jail on a forged-check charge. King said in the suit that he has chronic hepatitis C and tuberculosis and receives disability payments and food stamps. Jones told him he couldn't see a doctor unless he had $30 for the visit and $10 for every prescription, "and quit asking or I would go to the hole and stay," King said in the lawsuit. King, acting as his own attorney, filed the suit in May in U.S. District Court in London against Jones, Heath and McCreary County. U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves recently dismissed the county as a defendant, but allowed the suit against the jail officials to proceed. King said he finally borrowed some money from other inmates so he could see the doctor. But then Jones wouldn't let the doctor put King on his regular medication, even though other inmates got the same drugs, King said. King said he finally got this medication after his father talked to the county judge-executive. However, Heath then took medication from him and other inmates, King said. Jones was not available for comment yesterday. But Heath said he did not take medication from any inmate, and that it's not true King had no access to medical care. In the suit alleging medical negligence, cruel punishment and harassment, King asked for unspecified damages "for all the damage done/being done to my body." |
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