Anbesol PLEASE!

The following is an excerpt from part one:

The C/Os can be cooperative when and if they want to be. In Piss mod, Kyle from the Marines’ billboard asks one of the lady—female, rather—C/Os about having an infected tooth pulled. It is obvious that she has the hots for him. In a minute flat, she makes a call to the dentist and reports back, “It’s too late for today but they’ll take you first thing in the morning.” That is exactly what happens.

After being in prison for a few weeks, Sid develops an infected wisdom tooth. He asks a C/O about getting it pulled. He might as well be talking to himself. He submits medical request slips, week after week, month after month. He asks a couple of other C/Os, to no avail. He keeps submitting requests. Finally, the pain is so unbearable that he pulls it out himself.

He removes the stem from his glasses and sharpens it on the cement cell floor. The tool effectively lances the abscess that is as large as the tooth itself. Using the scalpel that he has fashioned, he gouges the gum line over a period of several days and loosens the tooth. He pries it out using his thumb and forefinger as pliers.

For three months, he has been sleeping on the floor in various cells. Not a single staff person will assign him to a lower bunk. The floor was the only alternative since his spinal condition prevented him from maneuvering to the upper level. For eight months, he has been declined medication, even though he was taking Oxycodone at the time of his arrest. For two weeks he has been in solitary confinement for a fabricated “problem.”