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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Well in the US, the prisons do provide medical care. If they can't beat it outside of bars, might as well enjoy the free department of corrections pain killers on your way out.
gpt
A lot of prisons will not always give you required medications when you need to take them. Source: multiple former inmates that I know extremely well and talked to about this. Even HIV+ patients will not get their necessarily anti retrovirals as needed every day, which is detrimental to keeping the virus undetectable and the patient from getting sick. And if the meds don't get taken consistently, they *stop working*. So another med has to be tried. But what's the point if the prison guards and staff don't give the inmate their medication? 

One of the people I knew was in a wheelchair for nearly a year waiting for a knee replacement and they didn't give him appropriate pain medication at all. He literally had torn ligaments in his knee and couldn't walk. All they would give him was Ibuprofen or Tylenol. For a year.