I have permission from 67 y/o Randall W. Wade’s wife, Sharon, to publish her journal entries about the deplorable medical care in prisons. I can guarantee, from personal experience, that this is not the exception, but the rule. We need to take away implied immunity and hold these sorry excuses for human beings responsible for their actions.
Medical Care in Prison
On October 17th, 2017, 65 y/o Randall Wade was arrested and taken to a holding station in Sherman, Texas. He is type 1 diabetic and was arrested before going into his office. Usually his wife joined him for lunch at 12 noon to insure he ate and wasn’t driving if his sugar went low. They would have lunch, go by the bank, and then return back to work by 2:00. That day his whole schedule was thrown away. After receiving the information that he was arrested, his wife grabbed all his medicines and tried to give them to the authorities at the holding station. She was told to go away and leave the medicine. Because of his fractious diabetes, she would often get 911 calls to her home. The emergency crew would ask “Is he combative?” She would tell them “Sometimes.”
The night of his arrest his sugar dropped very low. She believes it probably went to 45 or lower, and that could have put him in a coma. He could not see because they took his glasses. He was very combative. Instead of doing what the EMTs would do, hold him and then give him a shot, she believes an officer pushed him down and threatened to beat him. When she saw him the next morning, he looked very bad. He was denied bail and sent to Fannin County jail.
Never had she been to a place like that. It was October 27th before she saw him again. He couldn’t see to fill out any paperwork. He was held there for eighteen months. Before he entered this jail he had teeth. Due to the poor nutrition there, his teeth all fell out.
Fannin County is a privately run facility that receives money from the government per inmate. Many times he was taken to the Bonham ER for low sugar, back pain, and dehydration. During those eighteen months his sugar was up and down, he couldn’t really see, and with all of his back surgeries, he was very depressed with the pain. They found out later he had cataracts.
On January 1, 2018, he accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to ten years.
February 22, then 24: he was moved to a holding cell in Oklahoma and then to Seagoville, TX. They moved inmates at night without a nurse or medicine. In the transfer to Texas, he went into diabetic shock. She called Seagoville and was told they do not call relatives over health issues. But if he dies, they will call her. She filed many complaints through the Federal Concern for inmates website. This might have made them mad, but all she was concerned about was her husband’s health. Randall’s attorney also called and received no return calls from his case worker.
March 3: Back in the hospital. Another inmate’s wife informed her.
March 5: She was able to talk to him and he told her about all his hospital trips above.
March 7: He told her about threats from the staff to harm him and one guard threatening to lock him up behind the jail in a hole where no one would find him. She reported that on the website.
March 15: he was taken to the hospital to have two stents put in his heart. One week in the hospital, then one week in rehab. When they sent him back to Seagoville, the medicine the doctors put him on was not given to him. Three days later he was back in the hospital getting his sugar under control and medicine regulated. That was another week in the hospital and four days in rehab.
April 14: She finally got to see him for the first time. Their fourteen year old son waited with her in the cold over three hours to see him.
April 28: She went to see him and was told visitation was denied. When she asked why, she found out he was in the hospital again.
May 18: Back in the hospital. While in the hospital, inmates stole his belongings. When he returned, the prison gave him shoes that were too small. As a result, he got a blister on his big toe that got infected.
June 15: Back in hospital for two weeks to remove part of the infected big toe. She wasn’t allowed to talk to him during hospital stays.
When he returned from the hospital, the prison put him in the SHU (Special Housing Unit or segregation) where he was in a cell without a cell mate. There was no A/C. He was allowed to bathe only one time per week. She did have a video conference with him. It was heartbreaking. He was in a white t-shirt dripping with sweat and could barely talk. She filed another report because they were told you could not be put in the SHU if the temperature was over 97 degrees.
July 12: He was moved to FMC (Fort Worth Medical Center). Since being there, his glasses were stolen, he fell down stairs and hit his head. Glasses were returned 2-3 days later, but he still couldn’t see with them. His sugar went up and down. They finally checked his heart. He failed the stress test. He also had cataract surgery, but still had no new glasses. They did pull 2-3 teeth that had broken and were giving him pain. He couldn’t chew anything, and had to mash what food he ate.
In her own words, his wife states:
I know in my heart of hearts he is a good man. Worked hard all his life. Loved helping people a little too much. Gullible, book smart, but all in all, a country man.
I live each day waiting for a phone call—alive or dead. We have been married 20 years. With all his health conditions I pray to God every night. I see him every time I can.
I believe he could still help the DEA or government with how to prescribe medicine.
He has a home, family, friends, and grandkids. House arrest would be better.
We have to stop these government attacks on innocent, compassionate doctors. The only way to do that is through America learning the truth:
- That drugs don’t cause addiction.
- That the War on Drugs was purely a racist, political agenda that needs to end.
- Do Away with the CSA (Controlled Substance Act) which will put an end to the DEA.
- Exonerate all doctors charged criminally for doing their job.
To achieve the above, people need to join Doctors (and Patients) of Courage so that we can get the truth out.
Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
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