Records Show Girl Begged for Her Life as Officers Dehydrated Her to Death
By Jack Burns
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
May 1, 2017
Duchesne County, UT — Madison Jensen’s death could be used as an indictment on America’s love affair with opioids or one of badge abuse or both. At any rate, another inmate has died while in the care of the Duchesne County Jail.
Jensen, 21, had been battling with an opioid addiction before ending up in jail. Her opiate addiction had turned to a heroin addiction, and her behavior had zapped her family of any remaining energy or patience they’d previously held. They called the police.
It’s understandable, really, that her family would want to get her some help. It’s even appreciable that they’d call law-enforcement authorities. Maybe she was a danger to herself or others.
However, at any rate, she was taken to jail, a result of her addiction. Police even warned Jared Jenson jail wasn’t a good alternative to drug treatment. Maybe even the advising officer knew the jail would immediately deprive her of her medicines, even her anti-depressant. But the warning wasn’t heeded, and while in jail, she began to experience withdrawals of both drugs, and lost weight as a result, a lot of weight.
Her family says she was about 130 pounds when she entered lockup. But that quickly changed. She started to get nauseated and began to quickly deteriorate, losing pound upon pound to diarrhea and vomiting. She thought the jail could help her and she filled out a request for medical assistance. However, she apparently put down the wrong date on the request and it was immediately ignored. She dated her request as 12/31/16 but it was supposed to read 12/1/16.
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