Yeah, that's pretty insane. The prison guard exemplifies the arrogance and stupidity that people hate about bureaucrats.

This is why I object to allowing "conscience clauses" for religious reasons for anyone, even pharmacists. If you can't do your job, which is in large part to dispense legal medication, then you should be looking for work elsewhere. A prison guard has no business deciding what legal medication a prisoner should and should not be taking.

I find the morning after pill against my moral beliefs as well...but unlike a pharmacist working at a privately owned firm (who SHOULD have the right - with his boss' permission - to decline to do business with someone), a government employee MUST uphold the law as it is written.

The alternative is even worse than what we have now.

What TJIC said. There are other pharmacies. But when you must deal with the government, you don't have the option of taking your business elsewhere.

Did the rape victim end up pregnant?

Moral, self-righteous bullying, by the prison guard...but this "inmate" should probably pull her act together. This doesn't just "happen" to anyone.

Oi.

I'd like to see the guard on the hook for child support for 18 years.

Simple solution: Tag the guard with child support. The guard should have to deal with the consequences of his actions, and any collateral damage they cause just like everyone else.

I received a failure to appear warrant once, just after I turned 18. It really does happen to innocent people.

The court date I failed to appear at was for a shoplifting charge (FYI: I did not shoplift and was not even in the store where the shoplifting occurred). The police cited me, but never gave me the ticket and so I thought they had let me go. I found out later I had been under arrest. They never told me that either.

I used to be a corrections deputy, and I'm here to tell you that there is NO! FREAKING! WAY! I ever would have denied an inmate a prescribed medication on my own. It would have been approved or denied by the medical department, and I would have followed those instructions. Make that decision on my own? I'd have been fired in a week.

Remember, this was an individual guard - not policy, indeed against policy. The guard's known duties included dispensing, or overseeing the dispensing, of medications. That the guard is in the wrong is clear: the qusetion is ehether the administrators should have known the guard was unlikely to habdle certain medications or other procedures, and yet allowed the guard to be placed in such a position, on which I am inclined to believe that the subject is not a normal query on a job application or during an interview - at least "part of your duties will to be to retrieve pills/medication for prisoners" might be but not "part of your duties would be to dispense birth-control medication."

This is why I object to allowing "conscience clauses" for religious reasons for anyone, -MonicaP

I dont, I think such clauses should be exercised immedaitly, as in 'I refuse to work for you as the job requiremnets violate my beliefs'

I find the morning after pill against my moral beliefs as well -TJIC

How? In what way specifcally?

...but unlike a pharmacist working at a privately owned firm (who SHOULD have the right - with his boss' permission - to decline to do business with someone), -TJIC

Wrong, first, sometimes there arent other pharmacies; secondly,the owner of the pharmacy does not have that right, it is not a privvate business, it is a government enforced monopoly and as such should be held to the same standars as any other government agaency.

When customers can buy precription in any gas station supermarket or onlie with out governemnt mantain roadblocks, only then should pharmicists have the right to refuse service

This doesn't just "happen" to anyone. -Feebie

Rape, or arrest?

I'd like to see the guard on the hook for child support for 18 years. -Steamer

Simple solution: Tag the guard with child support. The guard should have to deal with the consequences of his actions, and any collateral damage they cause just like everyone else. -Mike Hunter

She didnt get pregnant, but CS wouldnt be enough, I'd've like to have seen the gaurd forced to raise the child

@Feebie:

> this "inmate" should probably pull her act together. This doesn't just "happen" to anyone.

I love how people respect cops and insist that arrests and other problems with the courts only happen to bad people...right up until it happens to them.

I'm reminded of a story about the Soviet gulags: one true believing communist was rounded up and taken there. Once inside another inmate asked him "do you see how the system works now?"

He responded. "No, the difference between me and the rest of the scum is that I'm INNOCENT!"

I love how people respect cops and insist that arrests and other problems with the courts only happen to bad people...right up until it happens to them. -- TJIC at July 3, 2012 12:54 PM

Just to back this up: Remember Chris Moore's 8 hours in jail for a helmet cam?

What if he had been a HIV positive and had to take the tough regimen?