(She wrote us this letter and begged to have her real name in the story. Ed.)
“My name is Robin Leigh Kulp. I am housed at Perryville prison, San Carlos unit. On 3-25-24 I was having trouble breathing, and having serious chest pain. My legs were throbbing, aching, and burning. An ICS was called as I was unresponsive to medical staff. Nurse Arnott administered Narcan to me, and then Nurse Jones gave me another dose of Narcan. These nurses were aware I had been given morphine earlier.
I was admitted to Abrazo West Hospital and sent to ICU because my oxygen level was only 33%. There I was put on a Narcan drip because Carlos medical staff had failed to provide the hospital with my records. Narcan and morphine can be a deadly combination. Dr. Jordyne at the hospital immediately stopped the Narcan drip when he found out I was on morphine.
The doctor released me three days later and changed my medication to Percocet and gabapentin instead of morphine. The providers here are not specialists in cancer treatment, nor apparently, pain management. Carlos providers are not giving me ANY pain medication, or ANY of the medication prescribed by real off-site doctors.
I live in constant pain from nerve damage in my legs, my feet are turning purple, my chest hurts, and I can’t sleep. Will they just let me die like this?”
Unbelievable unless you’re familiar with the HORRIBLE medical care at Perryville. This is beyond brutality. Inmates are humans and are paying for their crime by just being there. They should never suffer cruelty by staff. These medical people are not abiding by their oaths as Dr’s and nurses.
Horrible medical treatment in Perryville prison. I was only there 6 months. When I first arrived at Perryville on October 20th 2023 I was Pregnant and when prisoners first get there they go to RNA before they hit a yard and there’s no telling how many days, weeks or months you will be there. The law states that pregnant inmates are not to be on top bunks nor climb ladders well they fail to follow the law or care to even move me to a bottom bunk when I made them aware of the fact I was pregnant they didn’t seem to care staff doesn’t get paid to care so a few days later I started to get a tooth infection so I had put in an HNR to see the dentist because my face was swollen and it was hurting long story short I was in RNA for 17 days and never got to see the dentist when I finally made it to my yard San-Carols unit I had to carry my heavy mattress crossed the yard and pregnant I didn’t see a dentist for 2 weeks after that. Then after I had my baby I got another tooth pulled well the dentist left a bunch of bone up in there I wouldn’t heal and you could see the phone still up in there well since it would not heal or close up I ended up getting an abscess next to that tooth that was pulled I put another h&r in to go see the dentist I finally got in to see the dentist and I sat there for six and a half hours pain a swollen and I have to sit up and a hard chair I couldn’t lay down and so I finally declined to see the dentist because after 6 and 1/2 hours of sitting there in pain I got a migraine I got sick to my stomach and I still was not going to be seen anytime soon so horrible horrible medical Care not even animals get treated as bad as the staff and the medical team treat you there.