Before Delyla Pierson-Winburn reported to jail to serve a DUI sentence, she called ahead to check if she would be able to bring her prescribed anti-anxiety medication with her. The judge in the case and her doctor both wrote notes approving her use of the medication but due to a communication breakdown she was without her pills and three days later she was being carted out of jail and into an ambulance after she lost consciousness. She has now filed a personal injury law suit versus the county, the Sheriff’s Office and Correctional Health Services. (READ MORE)
The judge who sentenced Pierson-Winburn wrote a note allowing the woman to bring her medication to jail and the nurse at the jail agreed with the judge and Pierson-Winburn’s physician but that was not adequately communicated to jail detention officers. At the end of her three-day sentence the only thing Pierson-Winburn remembers is being in a holding cell and then waking up in an ambulance.
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